Shakespeare and the 99%

Introduction: 'Truth in Advertising': Shakespeare and the 99%, Timothy Francisco and Sharon O'Dair.- Identification, Alienation, and "Hating the Renaissance", Denise Albanese.- Shakespeare, Alienation, and the Working-Class Student, Doug Eskew.- 'The Whip Hand': Elite Class formation in Ascham's The Schoolmaster, Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost and the Present Academy, Daniel Bender.- "Instruct her what she has to do": Education, Social Mobility, and Success, Mara I. Amster.- Literature and Cultural Capital in Early Modern and Contemporary Pedagogy, Elizabeth Hutcheon.- Creativity Studies and Shakespeare at the Urban Community College, Katharine Boutry.- Poverty and Privilege: Shakespeare in the Mountains, Rochelle Smith.- How the 1% Came to Rule the World: Shakespeare, Long-term Historical Narrative, and the Origins of Capitalism, Daniel Vitkus.- Hal's Class Performanceand Francis' Service Learning: 1 Henry IV 2.4 as Parable of Contemporary Higher Education, Fayaz Kabani.- Place and Privilege in Shakespeare Scholarship and Pedagogy, Marisa R. Cull.- Who Did Kill Shakespeare?, Sharon O'Dair.- Afterword: Shakespeare, the Swing Voter, Craig Dionne.

Sharon O'Dair is Professor of English, Emerita at the University of Alabama, USA. She is author of Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars (2000). Timothy Francisco is Professor of English and Director of The Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University, USA.