Jeffrey Knapp

Gebundenes Buch

Shakespeare High and Low

Character, Audience, Career

Beschreibung

For many theatergoers and readers, Shakespeare's lofty reputation as the world's greatest playwright has turned him into an intimidating, even a forbidding figure. In Shakespeare High and Low, Jeffrey Knapp helps us to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays by restoring Shakespeare's own sense of them as neither high culture nor low culture, but a potent amalgam of both. Only in recognizing Shakespeare's determination to connect with every social class in his theater can we begin to grasp how his plays have managed to thrill audiences for so many centuries and across so many cultures.

Autor

Jeffrey Knapp is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. The recipient of numerous awards for both scholarship and teaching, he has written extensively on Shakespeare, in An Empire Nowhere (1992), Shakespeare's Tribe (2002), Shakespeare Only (2009) and Pleasing Everyone (2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781399543699
• ISBN-10: 1399543695
• Artikelnr.: 70741448