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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... from Habiti antichi, et moderni di tutto il Mondo, Venice, 1598. Figure 13.12. Robert Boissard, Sir John Hawkins ... The Masque of Blackness, song with marginalium, from the 1640 folio. Figure 13.14. The Masque of Queens, marginalium ...
... from Habiti antichi, et moderni di tutto il Mondo, Venice, 1598. Figure 13.12. Robert Boissard, Sir John Hawkins ... The Masque of Blackness, song with marginalium, from the 1640 folio. Figure 13.14. The Masque of Queens, marginalium ...
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... The Masque of Blackness , song with marginalium , from the 1640 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 ...
... The Masque of Blackness , song with marginalium , from the 1640 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 ...
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... The Expulsion of Adam and Eve , from the Sistine Ceiling . Figure 15.14 . Giambattista Piranesi , relief of a vase from the Borghese Collection ( detail ) . From Coupes , vases ... ( Paris , 1805 ) , no . 84 . A RETROSPECTIVE PREFACE ...
... The Expulsion of Adam and Eve , from the Sistine Ceiling . Figure 15.14 . Giambattista Piranesi , relief of a vase from the Borghese Collection ( detail ) . From Coupes , vases ... ( Paris , 1805 ) , no . 84 . A RETROSPECTIVE PREFACE ...
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and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage Stephen Orgel. the authority represented by the text — I am talking now about the ... from the versions that were staged . He complains of the actors ' cuts - other playwrights ( including ...
and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage Stephen Orgel. the authority represented by the text — I am talking now about the ... from the versions that were staged . He complains of the actors ' cuts - other playwrights ( including ...
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... the collaboration . Editors who get this far usually want to go on to argue ... from the play - just as different as the printed text of Sejanus is from ... A CHARACTER ? IN " WHAT IS What Is a Text ? 5.
... the collaboration . Editors who get this far usually want to go on to argue ... from the play - just as different as the printed text of Sejanus is from ... A CHARACTER ? IN " WHAT IS What Is a Text ? 5.
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 |
Other editions - View all
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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