The Authentic Shakespeare - and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage

List of contents

List of Illustrations A Retrospective Preface 1.What is a Text? 2. What is a Character? 3. What is an Editor? 4. Acting Scripts, Performing Texts 5. The Poetics of Spectacle 6. The Spectacles of State 7. The Renaissance Poet as Plagiarist 8. Gendering the Crown 9. The Play of Conscience 10. Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama 11. Macbeth and the Antic Round 12. Prospero's Wife 13. Marginal Jonson 14. Tobacco and Boys 15. The Authentic Shakespeare Index

About the author

Collects fifteen important essays by one of the most prominent scholars of Shakespeare studies. 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. He has published numerous editions of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marlowe, and is the general editor of the New Pelican Shakespeare

Summary

Beautifully illustrated, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Orgel, Orgel Stephen
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2002
• EAN: 9780415900133
• ISBN: 978-0-415-90013-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Weight: 710 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, DRAMA / Shakespeare, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Sociology and anthropology, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean