Chapter 1 Introduction: ‘Truth in Advertising’—Shakespeare and the 99 Percent

Chapter 2 Identification, Alienation, and ‘Hating the Renaissance’

Chapter 3 Shakespeare, Alienation, and the Working-Class Student

Chapter 4 The Whip Hand: Elite Class Formation in Ascham’s The Schoolmaster, Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, and the Present Academy

Chapter 5 ‘Instruct Her What She Has to Do’: Education, Social Mobility, and Success

Chapter 6 Literature and Cultural Capital in Early Modern and Contemporary Pedagogy

Chapter 7 Creativity Studies and Shakespeare at the Urban Community College

Chapter 8 Poverty and Privilege: Shakespeare in the Mountains

Chapter 9 How the One Percent Came to Rule the World: Shakespeare, Long-Term Historical Narrative, and the Origins of Capitalism

Chapter 10 Hal’s Class Performance and Francis’s Service Learning: 1 Henry IV 2.4 as Parable of Contemporary Higher Education

Chapter 11 Place and Privilege in Shakespeare Scholarship and Pedagogy

Chapter 13 Afterword: Shakespeare, the Swing Voter