Shakespeare High and Low
Character, Audience, Career
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 1 January 2026
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399543705
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare’s career as a mass entertainer.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Series Editors' Preface
A Note on Pronouns
Introduction: Shakespeare and His Audience
1. Shakespeare’s Society and Theater
2. Shakespeare’s Life on the Stage
3. The Comedy of Errors: Style as Comedy
4. The Comedy of Errors: Identity and the Marketplace
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Heterosexuality as Perversity
6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Loving Difference
7. The Merchant of Venice: Money Talks
8. The Merchant of Venice: Turning Less into More
9. As You Like It: Is Anyone Better Than Anyone Else?
10. As You Like It: Acting Like Yourself
11. Richard II: Royalty as Theater
12. Richard II: The King’s Multiplicity
13. 1 Henry IV: Nation and Self Divided
14. 1 Henry IV: Recreating the Prince
15. Hamlet: The Death of Fathers
16. Hamlet: Something Within
17. Hamlet: Hamlet’s Mystique
18. Measure for Measure: Self-Usurpation
19. Measure for Measure: Craft Against Vice
20. Othello: Heterosexuality as Tragedy
21. Othello: Who Is the Real Othello?
22. Othello: Killing for Loving
23. The Winter’s Tale: The One vs. the Many
24. The Winter’s Tale: Bearing Children
25. The Winter’s Tale: The Resurrection of Comedy
26. The Tempest: Playwright as Tyrant
27. The Tempest: Gaining Through Loss
Further Reading
Selected Performances on DVD
Index
