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Shakespeare's tribe : church, nation, and theater in Renaissance England
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ISBN: 0226445690 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press


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Pleasing everyone : mass entertainment in Renaissance London and golden-age Hollywood
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ISBN: 9780190634063 0190634065 019063409X 0190634073 0190634081 9780190634070 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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"Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema. Through fascinating explorations of such famous plays as Hamlet, The Roaring Girl, and The Alchemist, and such celebrated films as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, and City Lights, Knapp challenges some of our most basic assumptions about the relationship between art and mass audiences. Above all, Knapp encourages us to resist the prejudice that mass entertainment necessarily simplifies and cheapens whatever it touches. As Knapp shows, it was instead the ceaseless pressure to please everyone that helped generate the astonishing richness and complexity of Renaissance drama as well as of Hollywood film"--


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ISBN: 9780226445717 0226445712 9780226445731 0226445739 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press

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