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Shakespeare and Fun: The Birth of Entertainment Value

Autor Donald Hedrick
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 iul 2024
In this decisively innovative approach to Shakespeare's plays through their competitive relation to other choices from London's vast entertainment industry, Donald Hedrick 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, he draws from cultural studies, contemporary and personal parallels, and wide-ranging historical materials: the semantic shift in keywords of pleasure anticipating the term 'fun', the practice of betting on actors, the psychology of the change of paying admission before an entertainment, and 'reality shows' of improvised contests of prose and verse. Continual insights emerge, both broad and specific: from ten 'entertainment value axioms' to Shakespeare's awareness of entertainment value's 'birth' at moments in his late plays, marking the end of a career that explored the value crisis of 'too much fun'.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350002845
ISBN-10: 1350002844
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția The Arden Shakespeare
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Other engaging features such as topical parallels of entertainment's logic from Trump's victory to "edutainment," practical staging issues, ten entertainment value axioms, and a linguistic study of historical changes in the language of entertainment pleasure, changes prefiguring our term "fun"

Notă biografică

Donald Hedrick is Professor of English at Kansas State University, USA.

Cuprins

Chapter 1. "Projects of Affection": Surprised by Capital, or Enter Entertainment Value Chapter 2. The Entertainment Unconscious: Method, Samples, Axioms Chapter 3. The Genealogy of Fun: The Discourse and Revolutionary Emergence of Entertainment Value Chapter 4. Amateur Sex Dream: Pleasure Enclosure and Green Prostitution Chapter 5. Distracting Othello: Tragedy and the Rise of Magic Chapter 6. The Gaming of a Shrew: Opportunistic Wagers Chapter 7. Bubbled: Value and CrisisNotesBibliographyIndex