Shakespeare, popularity and the public sphere

by Doty, Jeffrey S.

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Title Statements

Full title :Shakespeare, popularity and the public sphere / Jeffrey S. Doty.

Summary

"In late Elizabethan England, political appeals to the people were considered dangerously democratic, even seditious: the commons were supposed to have neither political voice nor will. Yet such appeals happened so often that the regime coined the word 'popularity' to condemn the pursuit of popular favour. Jeffrey S. Doty argues that in plays from Richard II to Coriolanus, Shakespeare made the tactics of popularity - and the wider public they addressed - vital aspects of politics. Shakespeare figured the public not as an extension of the royal court, but rather as a separate entity that, like the Globe's spectators who surrounded the fictional princes on its thrust stage, subjected their rulers to relentless scrutiny. For ordinary playgoers, Shakespeare's plays offered good practice for understanding the means and ends of popularity - and they continue to provide insight to the public relations strategies that have come to define modern political culture"...

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 210 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107163379, 1107163374
oclc:ocn975367636
LC Classification:PR3017
Dewey Decimal:822.3/3

Subjects

England Geschichte 1500-1600 Geschichte 1600-1700 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English… LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English… Öffentliche Meinung Politik Popularität Shakespeare, William