Renaissance Festivals: Merrying the Past and Present

by Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans

This ethnographic study of contemporary American Renaissance fairs focuses on the Maryland Renaissance Festival, in which participants recreate sixteenth-century England through performances of theater, combat-at-arms, processions, street hawking, and meticulously faithful historical reconstructions. It is also partly an autobiographical account of interactive improvisation, subcultures within the festival framework, the delineation between living...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786440147
• ISBN13: 9780786440146
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher