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.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Bettina Boecker
EAN: 9781137379955
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 3796 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-09-21
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, PERFORMING ARTS / General
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Europe, Performing arts, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets
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.
