Shakespeare and Popular Music

Adam Hansen is Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, UK.Adam Hansen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Programme Leader, Northumbria University, UK.

"This unique book combines a pop music fan's dedication with an academic's rigour - and gives us an analysis of Shakespeare in popular music and popular music in Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare is both sampler and sampled. From ballads to the Beatles and from Elizabethan sermons to internet fan sites, Hansen's enthusiasm is capacious and revealing. The rest certainly is not silence in a book which collapses distinctions between high and low culture, and is as comfortable with House as with Hamlet."

• 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