Shakespeare high and low : character, audience, career / Jeffrey Knapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knapp, Jeffrey (Professor of English), author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 308 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Character, audience, career

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2025]

Summary:

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Series Editors’ Preface

A Note on Pronouns

Introduction: Shakespeare and His Audience

Chapter 1 Shakespeare’s Society and Theater

Chapter 2 Shakespeare’s Life on the Stage

Chapter 3 The Comedy of Errors: Style as Comedy

Chapter 4 The Comedy of Errors: Identity and the Marketplace

Chapter 5 A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Heterosexuality as Perversity

Chapter 6 A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Loving Difference

Chapter 7 The Merchant of Venice: Money Talks

Chapter 8 The Merchant of Venice: Turning Less into More

Chapter 9 As You Like It: Is Anyone Better Than Anyone Else?

Chapter 10 As You Like It: Acting Like Yourself

Chapter 11 Richard II: Royalty as Theater

Chapter 12 Richard II: The King’s Multiplicity

Chapter 13 1 Henry IV: Nation and Self Divided

Chapter 14 1 Henry IV: Recreating the Prince

Chapter 15 Hamlet: The Death of Fathers

Chapter 16 Hamlet : Something Within

Chapter 17 Hamlet : Hamlet’s Mystique

Chapter 18 Measure for Measure: Self-Usurpation

Chapter 19 Measure for Measure: Craft Against Vice

Chapter 20 Othello: Heterosexuality as Tragedy

Chapter 21 Othello: Who Is the Real Othello?

Chapter 22 Othello: Killing for Loving

Chapter 23 The Winter’s Tale: The One vs. the Many

Chapter 24 The Winter’s Tale: Bearing Children

Chapter 25 The Winter’s Tale: The Resurrection of Comedy

Chapter 26 The Tempest: Playwright as Tyrant

Chapter 27 The Tempest: Gaining Through Loss

Further Reading

Selected Performances on DVD

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781399543712

1399543717

OCLC:

1511483725