Peter Lake discusses “Popularity and its Discontents: Staging Politics on the Shakespearean Stage”. Lake is Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. This talk was included in the session titled, “Popularity and Popular Politics in Early Modern England”.

Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depths of Politics

Popularity and its Discontents: Staging Politics on the Shakespearean Stage

The “new social history” has exploded the myth that Shakespeare’s society comprised a culture of obedience. Repositioning his works in the popular politics of his period, social historians and literary critics reassess Shakespeare’s presentation of power and authority.

About

Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depths of Politics