The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the Early Modern StageIn 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 that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Many essays in The Authentic Shakespeare have become classics. Collected here for the first time, they essential reading for students of the Renaissance stage and the history of the book. |
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Page xi
... costume for Prince Henry in Ben Jonson's Oberon , 1611. Devonshire Collection , Chatsworth . Reproduced by permission of the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees . Figure 6.7 . Arend van Buchel after Johannes de ...
... costume for Prince Henry in Ben Jonson's Oberon , 1611. Devonshire Collection , Chatsworth . Reproduced by permission of the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees . Figure 6.7 . Arend van Buchel after Johannes de ...
Page xiii
... costume design for a nymph in The Masque of Blackness , 1605. Devonshire Collection , Chatsworth . Reproduced by permission of the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees . Figure 13.2 . Inigo Jones , masquer's costume ...
... costume design for a nymph in The Masque of Blackness , 1605. Devonshire Collection , Chatsworth . Reproduced by permission of the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees . Figure 13.2 . Inigo Jones , masquer's costume ...
Page xvii
... costume ; with the complex and changing interaction of theater with the political life of the age ; and with the ... costumes and decor created by Inigo Jones for the Stuart court were not mere spectacle , but had a serious and ...
... costume ; with the complex and changing interaction of theater with the political life of the age ; and with the ... costumes and decor created by Inigo Jones for the Stuart court were not mere spectacle , but had a serious and ...
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... costume was going to look like ? -out of several hundred surviving drawings , there are only seven in which the color of the costume appears . The answer became clear when I got a look at the notes and letters accompanying the drawings ...
... costume was going to look like ? -out of several hundred surviving drawings , there are only seven in which the color of the costume appears . The answer became clear when I got a look at the notes and letters accompanying the drawings ...
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... costumes ( Viola says she is dressing as her brother used to dress ) ; but they are indistinguishable only in the text . Here is another example : at the end of Hamlet's scene with his mother , the following exchange takes place : Ham ...
... costumes ( Viola says she is dressing as her brother used to dress ) ; but they are indistinguishable only in the text . Here is another example : at the end of Hamlet's scene with his mother , the following exchange takes place : Ham ...
Contents
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The Poetics of Spectacle | 49 |
The Spectacles of State | 71 |
The Renaissance Poet as Plagiarist | 89 |
Gendering the Crown | 107 |
Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama | 143 |
Macbeth and the Antic Round | 159 |
Prosperos Wife | 173 |
Marginal Jonson | 187 |
Tobacco and Boys | 211 |
The Authentic Shakespeare | 231 |
Notes | 257 |
Index | 271 |
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The Authentic Shakespeare, and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage Stephen Orgel Limited preview - 2002 |
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The Authentic Shakespeare, and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage Stephen Orgel No preview available - 2002 |
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