Imagining Shakespeare’s Original Audience, 1660–2000

Chapter 1 Introduction: Those Nut-cracking Elizabethans

Chapter 2 Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Shakespeare Criticism

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

Chapter 4 Enter the Groundlings

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

Chapter 6 The Rediscovery of the Judicious Few

Chapter 7 Neo-Elizabethanism