Pleasing everyone: mass entertainment in renaissance london and golden-age hollywood
Auteur :
Knapp, Jeffrey
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780190634063
Date de publication :
23 févr. 2017
Dimensions :
15,7 x 23,6 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
748 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.