The Prince and the Hobby-Horse: Shakespeare and the Ambivalence of Early Modern Popular Culture
The Shakespearean hobby-horse, mentioned emphatically in Hamlet, brings into focus a number of problems related to early modern popular culture. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the word was characterised by semantic ambivalence, with simultaneously valid meanings of a breed of...
Main Author: | Natália Pikli |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2013-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Early Modern Studies |
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Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/7000 |
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