Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood

by Jeffrey Knapp

Book Overview

Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema. Through fascinating explorations of such famous plays as Hamlet, The Roaring Girl, and The Alchemist, and such celebrated films as Citizen Kane, The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190634065
• ISBN13: 9780190634063
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"