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"From Medievalism to Early Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early modernism--a new term introduced in this collection--present in contemporary popular culture. By focusing on often overlooked uses of the past in contemporary culture--such as the allusions to John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (1623) in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, and the impact of intertextual references and internet fandom on the BBC's The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses--the contributors illustrate how cinematic, televisual, artistic, and literary depictions of the historical and cultural past not only re-purpose the past in varying ways, but also build on a history of adaptations that audiences have come to know and expect. From Medievalism to Early Modernism: Adapting the English Past analyses the way that the medieval and early modern periods are used in modern adaptations, and how these adaptations both reflect contemporary concerns, and engage with a history of intertextuality and intervisuality"-- Introduction: medievalism and early-modernism in adaptations of the English past / Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie -- Wonder Eoman and the nine ladies worthy: the male gaze and what it takes to be a "worthy woman" / Simone Celine Marshall -- The king, the sword, and the stone: the recent afterlives of King Arthur / Sarah Gordon -- Brand Chaucer: the poet and the nation / Martin Laidlaw -- Moving between life and death: horror films and the medieval walking corpse / Polina Ignatova -- From cabaret to gladiator: refiguring masculinity in Julie Taymor's Titus / Marina Gerzic -- "There's my exchange": the Hogarth Shakespeare / Shelia T. Cavanagh -- Bloody brothers and suffering sisters: the Duchess of Malfi and Harry Potter / Lisa Hopkins -- Playing in a virtual medieval world: video game adaptations of England through role-play / Ben Redder -- "I can piss on Calais from Dover": adaptation and medievalism in graphic novel depictions of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) / Iain A. MacInnes -- Beyond "tits and dragons": medievalism, medieval history, and perceptions in Game of Thrones / Hilary Jane Locke -- Re-fashioning Richard III: intertextuality, fandom, and the (mobile) body in The hollow crown: the Wars of the Roses / Marina Gerzic -- The many afterlives of Elizabeth Barton / Annie Blachly -- The queen, the bishop, the virgin, and the cross: Catholicism versus Protestantism in Elizabeth / Aidan Norrie -- "Unseen but very evident": ghosts, hauntings, and the civil war past / Michael Durrant
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