Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781399543705)

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.

Author: Jeffrey Knapp
ISBN-10: 1399543709
ISBN-13: 9781399543705
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2026
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d