Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000

Bettina Boecker is Senior Lecturer at the University of Munich, Germany. She is also executive officer and research librarian at the Munich Shakespeare Library. She has published on a variety of early modern topics, but is particularly interested in the popular culture of the period and Shakespeare's afterlives.

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Shakespeare's Elizabethan Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare Criticism 2. 'No man of genius ever wrote for the mob': Shakespeare's Elizabethan Audience and Romantic Shakespeare Criticism 3. Enter the Groundlings 4. Childish and Primitive: Shakespeare's Elizabethan 5. The Rediscovery of the Judicious Few 6. Neo-Elizabethanism 7. Shakespeare's Elizabethan Audience in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Appendix: The Grocer's Wife Bibliography Index