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Shakespeare and Popular Voice

Annabel Patterson (Author)

9780631168737, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 29 November 1989

204 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.34 kg

In Shakespeare and the Popular Voice Annabel Patterson challenges as counter-intuitive the common opinion that Shakespeare was anti-democratic, contemptuous of the crowd and an unfailing supporter of Elizabethan social hierarchy.

Caviar or the general: Hamlet and the popular theater

The peasant's toe: popular culture and popular pressure

Bottom's up: festive theory

Back by popular demand: the two versions of Henry V

'What matter who's speaking?': Hamlet and King Lear

'Speak, speak!': the popular voice and the Jacobean state

'Thought is free': The tempest

Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]

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