Shakespeare only / Jeffrey Knapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knapp, Jeffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship.

Shakespeare, William.

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

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolatrists, who insist on Shakespeare's timeless preeminence as an author. On the other side are the theater historians who view modern claims of Shakespeare's uniqueness as a distortion of his real professional life. In Shakespeare Only, Knapp draws on an extraordinary array of historical evidence to reconstruct Shakespeare's authorial identity as Shakespeare and his contemporaries actually understood it. He argues that Shakespeare tried to adapt his own singular talent and ambition to the collaborative enterprise of drama by imagining himself as uniquely embodying the diverse, fractious energies of the popular theater. Rewriting our current histories of authorship as well as Renaissance drama, Shakespeare Only recaptures a sense of the creative force that mass entertainment exerted on Shakespeare and that Shakespeare exerted on mass entertainment.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Our Humble Author

2. The Author Staged

3. The Author Sacrificed

4. The Author Revived

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612426643

9781282426641

1282426648

9780226445731

0226445739

OCLC:

489130275