{"id":22176,"date":"2023-02-08T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T09:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=224056"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:35:19","slug":"was-shakespeare-a-snob","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/was-shakespeare-a-snob\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Shakespeare a snob?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Stephen Unwin unpicks Shakespeare\u2019s complex portrayals of working people, asking how much these characters reflect the reality of living and working in Elizabethan England <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rhiannon Davies\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 08 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Shakespeare\u2019s plays are peppered with characters from across the social spectrum, from kings and nobility down to servants, soldiers and shepherds. Speaking to Rhiannon Davies, theatre director and author Stephen Unwin explores the bard\u2019s portrayal of working people, and investigates how far his characters reflected the reality of living and working in Elizabethan England.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-224056-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/02\/wasshakespeareasnob-a7e2b07.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/02\/wasshakespeareasnob-a7e2b07.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/02\/wasshakespeareasnob-a7e2b07.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Stephen Unwin is the author of <em>Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare\u2019s Working People<\/em> (Reaktion Books, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/poor-naked-wretches-shakespeare-s-working-people-stephen-unwin\/18418797?ean=9781789146615&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Poor-Naked-Wretches-Shakespeares-Working\/dp\/1789146615&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fpoor-naked-wretches%2Fstephen-unwin%2F9781789146615&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Stephen Unwin unpicks Shakespeare\u2019s complex portrayals of working people, asking how much these characters reflect the reality of living and working in Elizabethan England <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":22177,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/was-shakespeare-a-snob.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/was-shakespeare-a-snob-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/was-shakespeare-a-snob-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/was-shakespeare-a-snob.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/was-shakespeare-a-snob.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/was-shakespeare-a-snob.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/was-shakespeare-a-snob.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Stephen Unwin unpicks Shakespeare\u2019s complex portrayals of working people, asking how much these characters reflect the reality of living and working in Elizabethan England","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/22176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}