Jeffrey Knapp: 3 books
Pleasing Everyone
Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
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, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema....
by Jeffrey Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolatrists, who insist on Shakespeare’s timeless preeminence as an author. On the other side are the theater historians...
Transforming Higher Education
Economy, Democracy, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The university is being transformed and can be transformed. This doubleness informs this book. 'Transforming' in 'transforming higher education' can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher education is being transformed by the social and political situation in which it is enmeshed. 'Transforming'...