The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (595 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 041591213X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Five Stars ladylady great!. "Classic essays" according to Curtis Daw. There is no better collection of essays about the complexity of Shakespearean textual scholarship today. Orgel is a brilliant scholar. He debunks many outdated editorial positions, and offers intriguing alternatives.
He has published numerous editions of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marlowe, and is the general editor of the New Pelican Shakespeare . Humanities at Stanford. Among his many publications are Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England, The Illusion of Power, Inigo Jones (with Sir Roy Strong), and The Jonsonian Masque. Collects fifteen important essays by one of the most prominent scholars of Shakespeare studies
To revisit this achievement is to stand in admiration of the focus and the breadth of the author's investigation of English Renaissance drama. Each of them startled when it first appeared; some are now canonical, others continue to be controversial. This book is truly Stephen Orgel's own best monument"-David Bevington Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago . Yet each essay remains exemplary for its erudition, imagination, and sheer elegance-and perhaps most distinctively, for the author's refusal to take any assumption about his subject on trust"-Margreta de Grazia, University of Pennsylvania "This impressive collection of fifteen essays by Stephen Orgel, written over an astonishingly creative lifetime, enables us now to savor once again the revisionist delights of "The Spectacles of State," "Prospero's Wife," "Marginal Jonson," "Tobacco and Boys," and so many others that have changed our whole way of thinking about t