Shakespeare and fun : the birth of entertainment value /
A ground-breaking study using theater history, economics and linguistics to define an entertainment revolution through fresh readings of Shakespeare's texts. This innovative approach to Shakespeare's plays examines them through their relation to other choices from London's vast entert...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Arden Shakespeare,
[2025].
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| Summary: | A ground-breaking study using theater history, economics and linguistics to define an entertainment revolution through fresh readings of Shakespeare's texts. This innovative approach to Shakespeare's plays examines them through their relation to other choices from London's vast entertainment industry and recovers a coherent internal dynamic of theatre's 'pleasure enclosure' accompanying the revolutionary logic of capital's new cultural and economic 'extremes'. Applying these relations to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello and The Taming of the Shrew, it draws from cultural studies, contemporary and personal parallels and wide-ranging historical materials. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350002845 1350002844 9781350529847 1350529842 |