Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000

Groundlings, Gallants, Grocers
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-37995-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3796 g

Reihe: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boecker, Bettina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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.