Write a circa piece that touches on one or both of the required articles (Lawrence Levine, “William Shakespeare and the American People” and Paul DiMaggio, “Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston.

Write a circa piece that touches on one or both of the required articles (Lawrence Levine, “William Shakespeare and the American People” and Paul DiMaggio, “Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America,” both in Mukerji and Schudson) and explain how they are relevant to the idea in the lecture about “high” culture being socially constructed and not simply “natural.”The DiMaggio case concerns how an elite segment of society reacted to the rise of new middle classes. In reading it think about how they tried to create their own, exclusive cultural world.In reading the Shakespeare article you should consider how the social status of Shakespeare has changed over the centuries. What was it like in the early-to-mid 1800s? How did some theater owners and “cultural entrepreneurs” try to change it in the late 1800s and early 1900s? What are your impressions of the cultural status of Shakespeare plays today?