Ebook: Imagining Shakespeare’s Original Audience, 1660-2000 : Groundlings, Gallants, Grocers
Author: Boecker Bettina
- Tags: Shakespeare William -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history, Theater audiences -- England -- History -- 17th century, Theater audiences -- England -- History -- 18th century, Renaissance, Drama, European/English Irish Scottish Welsh, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literature: history & criticism, DRAMA -- English Irish Scottish Welsh
- Series: Palgrave Shakespeare studies.
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Language: English
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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.