Shakespeare High and Low 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 social class in his theater can we begin to grasp how his plays have managed to thrill audiences for so many centuries and across so many cultures.-
Writing Europe in Renaissance France
- The Phantom of Chance
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Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage
- Performing Economic Thought
- Inventions of the Skin
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Open Subjects
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Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700
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Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters
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Shakespeare, the Sea and the Stage
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The English Baroque in Early Modern Literature
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Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage
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Friendship's Shadows
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Don Quixote in the Archives
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Forgetting Differences
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Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais
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Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre
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Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law
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The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
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Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law
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Theatrical Milton
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Shakespeare'S Golden Ages
Dramatic, energetic, humane, witty, able to appeal to a wide audience without ever compromising intelligence, nuance or sophistication – Jeffrey Knapp's new introduction to Shakespearean drama demonstrates many of the characteristics it cherishes in the plays it analysesA wonderfully persuasive and accessible introduction to eleven of the best scripts ever written. -- Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute and University of Birmingham
Witty, learned, and above all humane, Shakespeare High and Low demonstrates that in casting Shakespeare as a paragon of high literary culture, modern readers have diminished his signal achievement: to speak across differences. Knapp introduces a Shakespeare who reveals the precarity and smallness of the certainties by which we live – a reckoning that brings us to laughter as well as tears. -- Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
Witty, learned, and above all humane, Shakespeare High and Low demonstrates that in casting Shakespeare as a paragon of high literary culture, modern readers have diminished his signal achievement: to speak across differences. Knapp introduces a Shakespeare who reveals the precarity and smallness of the certainties by which we live – a reckoning that brings us to laughter as well as tears. -- Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Knapp is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. The recipient of numerous awards for both scholarship and teaching, he has written extensively on Shakespeare, in An Empire Nowhere (1992), Shakespeare’s Tribe (2002), Shakespeare Only (2009) and Pleasing Everyone (2017).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781399543705 |
| ISBN 10 | 1399543709 |
| Title | Shakespeare High and Low |
| Author | Jeffrey Knapp |
| Series | Edinburgh Critical Studies In Renaissance Culture |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2026-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
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