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Shakespeare’S Audience

✍ Scribed by Alfred Harbage

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
212
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Presents and interprets evidence on the size, social composition, behavior, and the aesthetic and intellectual capacity of Shakespeare's audience.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
I. The Evidence
II. How Many People?
III. What Kind of People?
IV. Behavior
V. Quality: Elizabethan Appraisals
VI. Quality: Modern Appraisals
VII. Our Shakespeares and Our Audiences
Appendixes A: Estimates of Attendance
Appendix B: Attendance Charts
List of Works Cited
Index

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