Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000
Groundlings, Gallants, Grocers| By: | Bettina Boecker |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137379955 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137379962 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.