Adam Hansen is Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, UK.

"Adam Hansen offers an audacious analysis of the uses to which contemporary music has put Shakespeare and ‘Shakespeare' has put contemporary music. The result is a delightful bricolage of early-modern and post-modern cultural history in which Freud, Adorno and Walter Benjamin rub shoulders with Duke Ellington, Cowboy Jack Clement, the Kaiser Chiefs, numerous rappers, punks and folk-singers as vital interpreters of the Shakespearean text."

• Introduction: A Whole Lotta Shakespeare Goin' On?; 1. 'Where should this music be?': Locating Shakespeare in/and/against Modern Popular Music; 2. Shakespeare and the Technologies of Pop; 3. Shakespeare, the Beatles and the 60s; 4. Predicting Riots? Shakespeare, Pop and Politics; 5. 'High Class Dreams': Shakespeare, Status and Country Music; 6. 'Shakespeare with a twist': The Bard, Race, Gender and Popular Music; 7. Rockin' All Over the Globe; 8. Fans, Fans, Fans, Lend Me Your Ears; Index.

Adam Hansen is Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, UK.

"Adam Hansen offers an audacious analysis of the uses to which contemporary music has put Shakespeare and ‘Shakespeare' has put contemporary music. The result is a delightful bricolage of early-modern and post-modern cultural history in which Freud, Adorno and Walter Benjamin rub shoulders with Duke Ellington, Cowboy Jack Clement, the Kaiser Chiefs, numerous rappers, punks and folk-singers as vital interpreters of the Shakespearean text."

• Introduction: A Whole Lotta Shakespeare Goin' On?; 1. 'Where should this music be?': Locating Shakespeare in/and/against Modern Popular Music; 2. Shakespeare and the Technologies of Pop; 3. Shakespeare, the Beatles and the 60s; 4. Predicting Riots? Shakespeare, Pop and Politics; 5. 'High Class Dreams': Shakespeare, Status and Country Music; 6. 'Shakespeare with a twist': The Bard, Race, Gender and Popular Music; 7. Rockin' All Over the Globe; 8. Fans, Fans, Fans, Lend Me Your Ears; Index.

Adam Hansen is Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, UK.

"Adam Hansen offers an audacious analysis of the uses to which contemporary music has put Shakespeare and ‘Shakespeare' has put contemporary music. The result is a delightful bricolage of early-modern and post-modern cultural history in which Freud, Adorno and Walter Benjamin rub shoulders with Duke Ellington, Cowboy Jack Clement, the Kaiser Chiefs, numerous rappers, punks and folk-singers as vital interpreters of the Shakespearean text."

• Introduction: A Whole Lotta Shakespeare Goin' On?; 1. 'Where should this music be?': Locating Shakespeare in/and/against Modern Popular Music; 2. Shakespeare and the Technologies of Pop; 3. Shakespeare, the Beatles and the 60s; 4. Predicting Riots? Shakespeare, Pop and Politics; 5. 'High Class Dreams': Shakespeare, Status and Country Music; 6. 'Shakespeare with a twist': The Bard, Race, Gender and Popular Music; 7. Rockin' All Over the Globe; 8. Fans, Fans, Fans, Lend Me Your Ears; Index.