Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career

by Jeffrey Knapp

For many theatergoers and readers, Shakespeare's lofty reputation as the world's greatest playwright has turned him into an intimidating, even a forbidding figure. In Shakespeare High and Low, Jeffrey Knapp helps us to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays by restoring Shakespeare's own sense of them as neither high culture nor low culture, but a potent amalgam of both. Only in recognizing Shakespeare's determination to connect with every...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399543695
• ISBN13: 9781399543699
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"