Jeffrey Knapp

Pleasing Everyone

Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood

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Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day ¿ so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780190634063
• ISBN-10: 0190634065
• Artikelnr.: 47870531

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Knapp is the Eggers Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including An Empire Nowhere: England and America from Utopia to The Tempest (1992), Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England (2002), and Shakespeare Only (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: The Individual and the Mass
1. Which Moll?
2. The Real John Doe
Part 2: Show Business
3. I Must Be Idle
4. One Step Ahead of My Shadow
Part 3: Junk and Art
5. Mocked With Art
6. Throw That Junk
Epilogue: The Author of Mass Entertainment
Coda: A Second Look
Notes
Works Cited