Extramural Shakespeare

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Shakespeare in Public

   • Denise Albanese

   Pages 1-9

3. Reframing Shakespeare for the Millennium: American Culture, “Elites,” the Academy—and Beyond

   • Denise Albanese

   Pages 11-38

4. Pacino’s Cliffs Notes: Looking for Richard’s “Public” Shakespeare

   • Denise Albanese

   Pages 39-65

5. Shakespeare Goes to School

   • Denise Albanese

   Pages 67-93

6. The Shakespeare Film, the Market, and the Americanization of Culture

   • Denise Albanese

   Pages 95-117

7. Social Dreaming and Making Shakespeare Matter

   • Denise Albanese

   Pages 119-144

8. Back Matter

   Pages 145-181

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This study argues that Shakespeare can now be understood as part of public culture. Thanks to the emergence of mass education in the twentieth century, Albanese argues that Shakespeare has become a shared property, despite the depiction of his texts as 'elite' cultural objects in the film industry.

• 20th century
• America
• argue
• culture
• education
• Enzo Paci
• film
• mass
• twentieth century
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

" Extramural Shakespeare makes a powerful case that Shakespeare no longer belongs only to cultural elites, but also to the public and to public culture. Probing Shakespeare's uses in primary and secondary schools, in the movies, in prisons, and elsewhere, Albanese reclaims the progressive possibilities of engagement with his works. Smart, politically engaged, and thoroughly up-to-date, Extramural Shakespeare is a fascinating examination of Shakespeare's place in contemporary culture." - Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

DENISE ALBANESE is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University, USA.

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