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Links Database: Keyword culture

• A Text of Shreds and Patches: Shakespeare and Popular Culture

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html

  Castaldo, Annalisa. "A Text of Shreds and Patches: Shakespeare and Popular Culture."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)20 (1997). Castaldo explores the effects of the integration of Shakespeare's work into popular culture:

  keywords: popular, culture, renaissance, papers, essays

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar

  http://eserver.org/emc/

  Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminarprovides works-in-progress by major scholars in early modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers--some junior, some senior--working on similar topics. The desire is to open a conversation, and make explicit how much scholarly work depends upon careful reading, as well as critical (in the best sense of that word) exchange:

  keywords: culture, early modern, electronic

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Given Names in England Before 1800

  http://www.galbithink.org/names/engb1800.htm

  Douglas Gabi's personal website offers a great section on given names in England before 1880. The information stems from a number of legal documents such as parish and guild registars. This site is interesting, since it makes note of religious trends and common names during Shakespeare's era:

  keywords: census, history, names, culture, religion, england, church

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History

  valid as of 2005-10-07

• King Learand the Culture of Justice

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/MORAL%20SHAKES-3.txt

  Schneider, Jr., Ben Ross. "King Learand the Culture of Justice." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies, 1997. Schneider re-evaluates reading the character of King Lear as a victim:

  keywords: culture, king, Lr, lear, victim

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Renaissance Forum

  http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v1no1/clare.htm

  Clare, Janet.Transgressing Boundaries: Women's Writing in the Renaisscance and Reformation. (University College Dublin). Exerpt:"The writings of women, whether religious, popular, humanist or courtly, had in the mid sixteenth to early seventeenth century at least one common aspect: women writers represented in their work an alternative culture which ran alongside the dominant culture and in writing as some did with a view to publication, they were transgressing boundaries." View the full-text version of this document at:

  keywords: culture, female, forum, reformation, seventeenth, sixteenth, women

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Romancing the Bard

  http://www.colby.edu/personal/leosborn/contents.html

  Osborne, Laurie. "Romancing the Bard." Osborne explores the use of Shakespeare and Shakespearean references in that most vilified form of popular culture, the romance novel:

  keywords: bard, culture, women, romance, appropriation

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture

  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/humanism.html

  Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Cultureis an essay on the Humanists in the Renaissance, from the Library of Congress. This site includes images of original manuscripts:

  keywords: vatican, culture, library, manuscripts

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Selected Papers

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/

  Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Selected Papers (SRASP)is an electronic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Renaissance literature and culture. This site provides the best papers from the yearly West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Conference from 1999 to 2004:

  keywords: association, culture, electronic, index, journal, papers, renaissance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• The African-American Shakespeare Company

  http://www.african-americanshakes.org/

  San Francisco, California. The African-American Shakespeare Company is the only company in the United States to stage Shakespeare with all African-American cast and from the unique perspective of this cultural group:

  keywords: company, african-american, culture, performances

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• The Mixture of "High" and "Low" Culture inHamletI,i: a Close Reading

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/HIGH_LOW%20CULTURE.txt

  Hill, Harry. "The Mixture of 'High' and 'Low' Culture inHamletI,i: A Close Reading." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Hill argues that popular culture is not folk culture but low culture elevated to high ; he examinesHamlet1.1 to provide examples of Shakespeare's ability to elevate low culture by reproducing the way people speak and think in metaphor and verbal texture.

  keywords: culture, Ham, hamlet, low, popular

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet

  valid as of 2005-09-07