Pleasing everyone : mass entertainment in Renaissance London and golden-age Hollywood / Jeffrey Knapp.
2017
PN2596.L6 K647 2017
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Title
Pleasing everyone : mass entertainment in Renaissance London and golden-age Hollywood / Jeffrey Knapp.
ISBN
9780190634094 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
PN2596.L6 K647 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.094210903
Summary
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 14, 2016).
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Print version: 9780190634063
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