1. NAT,,LIA PIKLI
Information acquired: 2025
NAT,,LIA PIKLI is an academic who published a paper in 2013 entitled The Prince and the Hobby-Horse: Shakespeare and the Ambivalence of Early Modern Popular Culture. NAT,,LIA PIKLI published this work as part of a team: Pikli, Natália. Here is a description of this work: The,,Shakespearean hobby-horse, mentioned emphatically in Hamlet, brings into focus a number of problems related to early modern popular culture. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the word was characterised by semantic ambivalence, with simultaneously valid meanings of a breed of horse, a morris character, a foolish person, and a wanton woman. The overlapping of these meanings in different cultural discourses of the age (playtexts, emblem books, popular verse, pictures) exemplifies the interaction of different productions of early modern popular culture, from social humiliating practices to festivals and public playhouses. This attests to a complex circulation of cultural memory regarding symbols of popular culture, paradoxically both ‘forgotten' and ‘rememb.