The English Renaissance in Popular Culture

Introduction; G.M.C.Semenza PART I: RENAISSANCE ICONS Desperate Housewives: The Tudors , the Politics of Historiography and the Beautiful Body of Jonathan Rhys Meyers; R.Wray The Secret Life of Elizabeth I; A. L. Eastwood Where Maps End: Elizabeth: The Golden Age of Simulacra; C.Lehmann PART II: RENAISSANCE FANTASIES Looking Up to the Groundlings in Contemporary Historical Fiction; A.Rodgers London's Burning: Remembering Guy Fawkes in V for Vendetta; M.Croteau Reading the Early Modern Witch in Horror Films of the 1960s and 70s; D.Willis Sportful Combat Gets Medieval: The Representation of Historical Violence at Renaissance Fairs; K.J.Wetmore, Jr. PART III: RENAISSANCE SOUNDS The First Adaptation of Shakespeare and the 'Recovery' of the Renaissance Voice: Sam Taylor's The Taming of the Shrew; D.Cartmell God Save the Queene: Sex Pistols, Shakespeare, and Punk [Anti-] History; G.M.C.Semenza Part IV: RENAISSANCE CINEMA Jacques Rivette's Film Adaptation as 'Dérive-ation': Pericles in Paris Belongs to Us and The Revenger's Tragedy in Noroit; R. Burt Alex Cox's Revenger's Tragedy and the Foreclosure of Apocalyptic Teleology; J. Keller Forget Film: Speculations on Shakespearean Entertainment Value; D.Hedrick

GREGORY M. COLÓN SEMENZA Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA.