Imagining Shakespeare’s Original Audience, 1660–2000

1. Introduction: Those Nut-cracking Elizabethans
Bettina Boecker

2. Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Shakespeare Criticism
Bettina Boecker

3. ‘No man of genius ever wrote for the mob’: Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Audience and Romantic Shakespeare Criticism
Bettina Boecker

4. Enter the Groundlings
Bettina Boecker

5. Childish and Primitive: Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Audience and the Turn-of-the-century Theatrical Avant-garde
Bettina Boecker

6. The Rediscovery of the Judicious Few
Bettina Boecker

7. Neo-Elizabethanism
Bettina Boecker

8. Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Audience in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Bettina Boecker

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History, Performing Arts, Poetry and Poetics