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
... folio. Figure 13.14. The Masque of Queens, marginalium from the 1640 folio. Figure 13.15. The Masque of Queens, marginalium in the holograph, 1609. ROY.18.A.xlv. By permission of the British Library. Figure 13.16. Sculpture of King ...
... folio. Figure 13.14. The Masque of Queens, marginalium from the 1640 folio. Figure 13.15. The Masque of Queens, marginalium in the holograph, 1609. ROY.18.A.xlv. By permission of the British Library. Figure 13.16. Sculpture of King ...
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... folio . Figure 13.14 . The Masque of Queens , marginalium from the 1640 folio . Figure 13.15 . The Masque of Queens , marginalium in the holograph , 1609 . ROY.18.A.xlv . By permission of the British Library . Figure 13.16 . Sculpture ...
... folio . Figure 13.14 . The Masque of Queens , marginalium from the 1640 folio . Figure 13.15 . The Masque of Queens , marginalium in the holograph , 1609 . ROY.18.A.xlv . By permission of the British Library . Figure 13.16 . Sculpture ...
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... folio version reads : “ ... That she ( dear she ) might take some pleasure of my pain . ” How shall we interpret this variation ? Is Q's printer misreading the manuscript ? It seems unlikely— those parentheses would be difficult to miss ...
... folio version reads : “ ... That she ( dear she ) might take some pleasure of my pain . ” How shall we interpret this variation ? Is Q's printer misreading the manuscript ? It seems unlikely— those parentheses would be difficult to miss ...
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... folio ? I suggest that the case of Macbeth is only an extreme example of the normal procedure . The text we have was considered the best ( or " correct " ) text of the play at the time the folio was prepared . And if we think of the ...
... folio ? I suggest that the case of Macbeth is only an extreme example of the normal procedure . The text we have was considered the best ( or " correct " ) text of the play at the time the folio was prepared . And if we think of the ...
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... folio texts , in the stage direction for his first entrance : ' Enter Claudius King of Denmark ' ; it is never used again . For audiences hearing whatever text , he has no name ; indeed , even for actors working from the first quarto he ...
... folio texts , in the stage direction for his first entrance : ' Enter Claudius King of Denmark ' ; it is never used again . For audiences hearing whatever text , he has no name ; indeed , even for actors working from the first quarto he ...
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 |
The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage Stephen Orgel Limited preview - 2013 |
The Authentic Shakespeare, and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage Stephen Orgel No preview available - 2002 |
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