Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000: Groundlings, Gallants, Grocers

By Bettina Boecker

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137379952
• ISBN13: 9781137379955
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"