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Stephen Orgel - The Authentic Shakespeare. And Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage.  - 9780415912136 - V9780415912136
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The Authentic Shakespeare. And Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage.

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Description for The Authentic Shakespeare. And Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage. paperback. 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. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 line drawings, 75 b&w photographs, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
In this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way we think about the age of Shakespeare. His subjects are varied and interconnected: the theater as social phenomenon, the development of the stage as an architectural presence and a cultural institution, the changing use of setting and costume, the changing status of the acting profession, the complex relation of theater to the political life of the age. Most of all, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415912136
SKU
V9780415912136
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
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About Stephen Orgel
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 ... Read more

Reviews for The Authentic Shakespeare. And Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage.
"These essays on Shakespeare and related subjects by Stephen Orgel represent thirty years' worth of intelligence, originality, breadth of vision, and brilliant clarity. Orgel is in the most pleasurable of senses a radical thinker. Whether his subject is politics or textuality, gender or genre, poetics or performance, he has always asked the most fundamental questions, rethought our most uninvestigated assumptions, ... Read more

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