Contents -- Permissions -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A whole lotta Shakespeare goin' on? -- 1 Shakespeare and early modern popular music -- 2 'Where should this music be?': Locating Shakespeare and modern popular music -- 3 Shakespeare and the technologies of pop -- 4 'Shakespeare with a twist': The Bard, 'race', and popular music -- 5 'High-class dreams': Shakespeare, status and country music -- 6 Shakespeare and the sixties -- 7 Shakes-punk: 'Deformed, unfinished', and rotten -- 8 Predicting riots?: Shakespeare, pop and politics -- 9 Rockin' all over the globe -- 10 Fans, fans, fans, lend me your ears: Listening to listeners -- Coda: The rest is? -- Works cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.