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Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies
2006
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- ‘Here’s sport, indeed!’: interchangeable voices and mass communication in Renaissance England Aimara da Cunha Resende Lengua y Literatura festivities élite culture popular culture culturalk exchange Renaissance England Renaissance England was a time when “voices” of most varied kinds intermingled, creating diffuse perceptions of ideologies. “High” and “low” cultures merged and/or changed place, as the advent of capitalism brought with it mobility that blurred socially hierarchical boundaries. As seen by Peter Burke, culture moved both ways, migrating either from the country, with its traditional culture, to the city, with its courtly and/or urban pastimes, or vice-versa. Thus court entertainments such as plays and masques, and political spectacles such as pageants and royal progresses – which both reinforced the splendour and power of the monarch and his/her court, and permitted some sort of participation of the crowd, offering the common people opportunity to enjoy more sophisticated cultural expressions – were nurtured by and simultaneously nurtured folklore and rural festivities. In the same way, popular pastimes that resulted from urban assimilations of both court and country entertainments, due to the rise of capital and the new middle class, appropriated and re-enacted such entertainments as part of their ideology. This article deals with such exchange between “high” and “low” cultural expressions, exploring them and discussing how and where they are exchanged as transformations take place, enhancing forms of carnivalized art such as theatre, élite and popular literature, dances and games. 2006 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333527602004 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.16