Jeffrey Knapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Knapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Knapp |
| SIGNATURE | KNAPP J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8472-8458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do Shakespeare's characters mean what they say
Modern criticism tends to assume that the excess of meaning in Shakespeare’s language gives voice to forces other than the motivations of his characters. But this critical tendency diminishes Shakespeare’s approach to characterisation. Focusing on The Merchant of Venice, my essay shows how the play continually encourages spectators and readers to sense implicit meaning in a character’s speech, without clarifying whether any meaning is actually be…
Uncovering the Research Behaviors of Reporters
The American news media is facing a crisis of public trust fueled, in part, by an epistemological disagreement of what constitutes quality news. Through a series of 50 interviews with journalism professionals and students, this research investigates how evidence-based journalism is created by gathering data on expert and novice research practices. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed through the lens of the ACRL Framework to provide t…
Selma and the Place of Fiction in Historical Films
Every historical film must contend with the possibility that its viewers will be scandalized by its mixture of fact and fiction, but no recent historical film has faced such pressure to justify its hybrid nature as Selma has, in large part because no recent film has taken on so momentous and controversial a historical subject: the civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. The renewed u…
Hamlet and the Sovereignty of Reasons
Why does Shakespeare link the psychological disintegration of Hamlet with the political disintegration of Denmark? This essay answers that question by comparing Shakespeare's tragedy to his later history plays, which foreshadow the “antic” Prince Hamlet in the “frantic” King Richard II and the “madcap” Prince Hal. All of these plays insist that a monarch pays a heavy price for claiming that he represents and even embodies the people he rules: he …
Mass Entertainment Before Mass Entertainment
Most theorists of mass entertainment restrict the phenomenon to the machine age. This essay argues that mass entertainment is more cogently defined in relation to the audience for whom it is intended rather than to the technologies for its production and distribution. To prove the point, the essay uses such key modern commentary on mass entertainment as Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art" essay, Horkheimer and Adorno's "Culture Industry" essay, and N…
"Throw That Junk!" The Art of the Movie in Citizen Kane
Junk" is the final word spoken in Hollywood's most famous art project, Citizen Kane. This essay focuses on three different registers in Kane for understanding the film's persistent intermingling of art and junk. The first is Charles Foster Kane's dual career as a newspaper publisher and an art collector; the second, Kane's cross-class marriage to the shopgirl Susan Alexander; and the third is the film's signature visual motif, which the essay cal…
Author, King, and Christ in Shakespeare’s Histories
By the time he completed Henry V in 1599, Shakespeare had written or co-written two four-part sequences of English history plays. Taken together, these two tetralogies formed a coherent historical narrative, a cycle. No other dramatist for the Elizabethan public theaters had ever attempted such a cycle; none had even written more than a two-part sequence of plays. The only significant analogue to Shakespeare’s achievement were the miracle plays t…
Sacred Songs Popular Prices
What Is a Co-Author
In this essay, Jeffrey Knapp questions the recent critical orthodoxy that treats authorship as a menacing latecomer to the popular and collaborative Elizabethan stage. Demonstrating that a literary paradigm of single authorship dominated Elizabethan thinking about playwriting, Knapp presents Hamlet as Shakespeare's attempt to develop a more theatrically inflected model of authorship through the dramatization of his own hybrid professional identit…
Spenser the Priest
SCHOLARS HAVE GENERALLY agreed that the "new Poet" of Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar (1578) helped spark England's literary renaissance, but they have overlooked one of Spenser's primary inspirations for his innovative conception of the poet: the innovative conception of ministry developed in the Reformation English Church
An Empire Nowhere
Preachers and Players in Shakespeare's England
Research Article| October 01 1993 Preachers and Players in Shakespeare's England Jeffrey Knapp Jeffrey Knapp Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1993) 44: 29–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928639 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeff…
An Empire Nowhere
The Witness and the Other World
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Elizabethan Tobacco
Research Article| January 01 1988 Elizabethan Tobacco Jeffrey Knapp Jeffrey Knapp Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1988) 21: 26–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928376 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeffrey Knapp; Elizabethan Toba…
Error as a Means of Empire in the Faerie Queene 1
Elizabethan Tobacco
Research Article| January 01 1988 Elizabethan Tobacco Jeffrey Knapp Jeffrey Knapp Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1988) 21: 26–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928376 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeffrey Knapp; Elizabethan Toba…
What Is a Co-Author
In this essay, Jeffrey Knapp questions the recent critical orthodoxy that treats authorship as a menacing latecomer to the popular and collaborative Elizabethan stage. Demonstrating that a literary paradigm of single authorship dominated Elizabethan thinking about playwriting, Knapp presents Hamlet as Shakespeare's attempt to develop a more theatrically inflected model of authorship through the dramatization of his own hybrid professional identit…
Mass Entertainment Before Mass Entertainment
Most theorists of mass entertainment restrict the phenomenon to the machine age. This essay argues that mass entertainment is more cogently defined in relation to the audience for whom it is intended rather than to the technologies for its production and distribution. To prove the point, the essay uses such key modern commentary on mass entertainment as Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art" essay, Horkheimer and Adorno's "Culture Industry" essay, and N…
Error as a Means of Empire in the Faerie Queene 1
Elizabethan Tobacco
Research Article| January 01 1988 Elizabethan Tobacco Jeffrey Knapp Jeffrey Knapp Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1988) 21: 26–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928376 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeffrey Knapp; Elizabethan Toba…
The Witness and the Other World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Empire Nowhere
Preachers and Players in Shakespeare's England
Research Article| October 01 1993 Preachers and Players in Shakespeare's England Jeffrey Knapp Jeffrey Knapp Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1993) 44: 29–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928639 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeff…
An Empire Nowhere
Spenser the Priest
SCHOLARS HAVE GENERALLY agreed that the "new Poet" of Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar (1578) helped spark England's literary renaissance, but they have overlooked one of Spenser's primary inspirations for his innovative conception of the poet: the innovative conception of ministry developed in the Reformation English Church
What Is a Co-Author
In this essay, Jeffrey Knapp questions the recent critical orthodoxy that treats authorship as a menacing latecomer to the popular and collaborative Elizabethan stage. Demonstrating that a literary paradigm of single authorship dominated Elizabethan thinking about playwriting, Knapp presents Hamlet as Shakespeare's attempt to develop a more theatrically inflected model of authorship through the dramatization of his own hybrid professional identit…
Sacred Songs Popular Prices
Author, King, and Christ in Shakespeare’s Histories
By the time he completed Henry V in 1599, Shakespeare had written or co-written two four-part sequences of English history plays. Taken together, these two tetralogies formed a coherent historical narrative, a cycle. No other dramatist for the Elizabethan public theaters had ever attempted such a cycle; none had even written more than a two-part sequence of plays. The only significant analogue to Shakespeare’s achievement were the miracle plays t…
Mass Entertainment Before Mass Entertainment
Most theorists of mass entertainment restrict the phenomenon to the machine age. This essay argues that mass entertainment is more cogently defined in relation to the audience for whom it is intended rather than to the technologies for its production and distribution. To prove the point, the essay uses such key modern commentary on mass entertainment as Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art" essay, Horkheimer and Adorno's "Culture Industry" essay, and N…
"Throw That Junk!" The Art of the Movie in Citizen Kane
Junk" is the final word spoken in Hollywood's most famous art project, Citizen Kane. This essay focuses on three different registers in Kane for understanding the film's persistent intermingling of art and junk. The first is Charles Foster Kane's dual career as a newspaper publisher and an art collector; the second, Kane's cross-class marriage to the shopgirl Susan Alexander; and the third is the film's signature visual motif, which the essay cal…
Hamlet and the Sovereignty of Reasons
Why does Shakespeare link the psychological disintegration of Hamlet with the political disintegration of Denmark? This essay answers that question by comparing Shakespeare's tragedy to his later history plays, which foreshadow the “antic” Prince Hamlet in the “frantic” King Richard II and the “madcap” Prince Hal. All of these plays insist that a monarch pays a heavy price for claiming that he represents and even embodies the people he rules: he …
Selma and the Place of Fiction in Historical Films
Every historical film must contend with the possibility that its viewers will be scandalized by its mixture of fact and fiction, but no recent historical film has faced such pressure to justify its hybrid nature as Selma has, in large part because no recent film has taken on so momentous and controversial a historical subject: the civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. The renewed u…
Uncovering the Research Behaviors of Reporters
The American news media is facing a crisis of public trust fueled, in part, by an epistemological disagreement of what constitutes quality news. Through a series of 50 interviews with journalism professionals and students, this research investigates how evidence-based journalism is created by gathering data on expert and novice research practices. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed through the lens of the ACRL Framework to provide t…
Do Shakespeare's characters mean what they say
Modern criticism tends to assume that the excess of meaning in Shakespeare’s language gives voice to forces other than the motivations of his characters. But this critical tendency diminishes Shakespeare’s approach to characterisation. Focusing on The Merchant of Venice, my essay shows how the play continually encourages spectators and readers to sense implicit meaning in a character’s speech, without clarifying whether any meaning is actually be…
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