Renaissance Festivals: Merrying the Past and Present by Kimberly Korol-Evans. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Renaissance Festivals: Merrying the Past and Present by Kimberly 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 history and historical elaboration, and a new understanding of performers and patrons.

Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans is an independent scholar who performs at Renaissance festivals with her husband and son in their troupe A Klasse Akte. She has published a number of articles, including "Marketing Multiple Mythologies of Masculinity" and "Tudor Court Culture." She is the founder and chair of the Festivals and Faires Area of the Popular Culture Association. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.