| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) |
| Contents |
Part Part I The supply side of culture -- chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The bias of the world -- chapter 3 Shakespearean technologies -- chapter 4 Crying all the way to the bank -- part Part II The pathos of Western modernity -- chapter 5 Re-introduction: essential Shakespeare -- chapter 6 Social time in The Winter's Tale -- chapter 7 Race and the comedy of abjection in Othello -- chapter 8 Calvin and Hobbes, or what was democracy |
| Summary |
Shakespeare has made the big time. No less than the Beatles or Liberace, Elvis Presley or Mick Jagger, Shakespeare is big-time in the idiomatic sense of cultural success and widespread notoriety. Not only has he achieved canonical status, Shakespeare is a contemporary celebrity. His artistic distinction and aptitude for controversy constantly keeps his name in the public eye. Bristol debates Shakespeare's cultural authority, and clarifies the semantics of his name in our culture. Big-Time Shakespeare suggests his plays represent the pathos of our civilisation with extraordinary fo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Teatro ingles.
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Biografias de literatos.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203989295 |
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9780203989296 |
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