The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the Early Modern StageFirst published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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Contents
1 What Is a Text? | 1 |
2 What Is a Character? | 7 |
3 What Is an Editor? | 15 |
4 Acting Scripts Performing Texts | 21 |
5 The Poetics of Spectacle | 49 |
6 The Spectacles of State | 71 |
7 The Renaissance Poet as Plagiarist | 89 |
8 Gendering the Crown | 107 |
10 Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama | 143 |
11 Macbeth and the Antic Round | 159 |
12 Prosperos Wife | 173 |
13 Marginal Jonson | 187 |
14 Tobacco and Boys | 211 |
15 The Authentic Shakespeare | 231 |
Notes | 257 |
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The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage Stephen Orgel Limited preview - 2013 |
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