Shakespeare and Popular Voice
1. Edition November 1989
204 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-16873-7
John Wiley & Sons
In Shakespeare and the Popular Voice Annabel Patterson challenges as counter-intuitive the common opinion that Shakespeare was anti-democratic, contemptuous of the crowd and an unfailing supporter of Elizabethan social hierarchy.
Caviar or the general: Hamlet and the popular theater
The peasant's toe: popular culture and popular pressure
Bottom's up: festive theory
Back by popular demand: the two versions of Henry V
'What matter who's speaking?': Hamlet and King Lear
'Speak, speak!': the popular voice and the Jacobean state
'Thought is free': The tempest
The peasant's toe: popular culture and popular pressure
Bottom's up: festive theory
Back by popular demand: the two versions of Henry V
'What matter who's speaking?': Hamlet and King Lear
'Speak, speak!': the popular voice and the Jacobean state
'Thought is free': The tempest
Annabel Patterson is Professor of Literature and English at Duke University. Some of her recent books are Censorship and Interpretation (1984), Pastoral and Ideology (1987) and Shakespeare and the Popular Voice (1991).
