Introduction: "You may do it extempore" -- Performance as appropriation: Bottom, celebrity, and the early modern clown -- "The taste of the present times": challenging parody in the eighteenth century -- "I have a passion for good prose": transmedial Shakespeare in the nineteenth century -- "Know that I, one Ringo the drummer am": mass media and the authenticity of subculture -- As we like it: Pyramus and Thisbe in the twenty-first century -- Epilogue: "It must be your imagination, then".
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