Bettina Boecker

Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000 (eBook, PDF)

Groundlings, Gallants, Grocers

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Produktbeschreibung

Comparatively little is known about Shakespeare's first audiences. This study argues that the Elizabethan audience is an essential part of Shakespeare as a site of cultural meaning, and that the way criticism thinks of early modern theatregoers is directly related to the way it thinks of, and uses, the Bard himself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137379962
• Artikelnr.: 43977297

Autorenporträt

Bettina Boecker is Senior Lecturer at the University of Munich, Germany. She is also executive officer and research librarian at the Munich Shakespeare Library. She has published on a variety of early modern topics, but is particularly interested in the popular culture of the period and Shakespeare's afterlives.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Shakespeare's Elizabethan Audience in Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare Criticism
2. 'No man of genius ever wrote for the mob': Shakespeare's Elizabethan
Audience and Romantic Shakespeare Criticism
3. Enter the Groundlings
4. Childish and Primitive: Shakespeare's Elizabethan
5. The Rediscovery of the Judicious Few
6. Neo-Elizabethanism
7. Shakespeare's Elizabethan Audience in the Second Half of the Twentieth
Century
Appendix: The Grocer's Wife
Bibliography
Index