Globe in Print - The Book of the Play in the Age of Shakespeare

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Editorial efforts since the first folio of 1623 have attempted to establish a correct, final text of Shakespeare's plays. Yet the text in the theater changed constantly in front of different venues and audiences. Stephen Orgel examines what happens to plays when they become books.

List of contents

• Preface


• List of Illustrations


• 1: The Drama of Print


• 2: The Example of Gorboduc


• 3: From Stage to Page


• 4: The Example of Macbeth


• 5: The Jonson Folios


• 6: Classical Models


• Conclusion


• Principal Works Discussed


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Stephen Orgel is the J. E. Reynolds Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Stanford University. His most recent books are The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature (OUP, 2022), The Invention of Shakespeare and Other Essays (2022), Wit's Treasury (2021), The Reader in the Book (OUP, 2015), Spectacular Performances (2011), Imagining Shakespeare (2003), and The Authentic Shakespeare (2002). He is the general editor of the New Pelican Shakespeare, and has edited The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in the Oxford Shakespeare.

Summary

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Editorial efforts since the first folio of 1623 have attempted to establish a correct, final text of Shakespeare's plays. Yet the text in the theater changed constantly in front of different venues and audiences. Stephen Orgel examines what happens to plays when they become books.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Orgel, Stephen (J. E. Reynolds Professor in Humani Orgel, Orgel Stephen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2024
• EAN: 9780198920557
• ISBN: 978-0-19-892055-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean