Reviews for Shakespeare and the popular voice

The average rating for Shakespeare and the popular voice based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-19 00:00:00 Ryan Simerlink AP underlines that in her title, "popular" for Shakespeare's day was usually a perjorative, connote wide appeal to "the commons," for which popular strategy the second earl of Essex was executed. Late in the book she shows Corialanus is Shakespeare's meditation, " on an alternative political system'the early Roman republic' where the plebeians, both through their tribunes and directly, did have a voice in government"(3); and his imagining this alternative was prophetic, which only now we can fully appreciate. Patterson meticulously lays out the opposition to theaters on the part of Grindal, Bishop of London, and Cecil, Lord Burghley, originally on the pretense of plague (1564), but really to impound, in 1572, the only copy of the York Paternoster play. Bishop Grindal says that the "youthe resorteth excessively" to plays daily "but speciallye on holydays"(20). As for the religious precursors to the common play-houses, "goddes word by theyr impure mouthes is profaned, and turned into scoffes" so Lord Burghley should not allow plays within 3 miles of the city. By 1600, the Privy Council recognized that the city had gone theater-mad, on the 22nd June passed a measure to "restrain the excessive number of Plaie houses," especially a new one proposed for Bankside'The Globe. In 1594, Lord Mayor Spencer of London asked Lord Burghley to suppress the new Bankside theater, though he admits he acknowledges defense of the plays, that "the people must have some kynd of recreation…to divert idle heads"(21). In July of 1604 Henry IV of France was told that King James hunted to "divert his spirits" and Archie Armstrong, who'd come from Scotland with the king, had established himself as the "all-licens'd Fool" Goneril complains of in Lear, which was performed St Stephens night 1606, at Whitehall, before an older monrch. In 1606, James had already reigned in Scotland for 25 years (106) The Parliament of 1604, the historian JP Kenyon admits, resulted in a consolidated opposition; along with the Church Canons of 1604, the Chronicles of Parliament provide many of my own historical footnotes to the papers I published on the social context of Measure for Measure and All's Well, as well as Henry V.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-18 00:00:00 Robert P Ohlmacher Read the whole book in one day for an assignment and presentation. Brummett states that rhetoricians need to turn away from analyzing discrete texts (ie speeches, essays, etc.) so much and start looking at popular culture as a source of constructing meaning. Rhetorical critics need to adapt a mosaic model of looking at artifacts. Rather than analyzing the source of the text (ie looking at Lincoln's Gettysburg address), they can shift their attention to the audience and how they construct meaning. He also talks about the reason hostage stories are so popular in the news: because the media metonymize (or reduce) complex stories into sound bites that people can understand, then promptly forget about. A good book, laying out a lot of essential ideas about the role of rhetoric in popular culture.