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 xvii
... play was a collaborative process , with the author by no means at the center of the collaboration . The company commissioned the play , usually stipulated the subject , often provided the plot , often parceled it out , scene by scene ...
... play was a collaborative process , with the author by no means at the center of the collaboration . The company commissioned the play , usually stipulated the subject , often provided the plot , often parceled it out , scene by scene ...
Page xix
... play scripts as books implies . " What Is a Text ? " was written at the invitation of David Bergeron for a panel on the editing of Renaissance texts at the Modern Language Association in 1980 , and when it was subsequently published in ...
... play scripts as books implies . " What Is a Text ? " was written at the invitation of David Bergeron for a panel on the editing of Renaissance texts at the Modern Language Association in 1980 , and when it was subsequently published in ...
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... play was first written in collaboration with another playwright ; that was the version the actors performed . But in preparing the play for publication , Jonson took control of the text : he replaced his collaborator's scenes with ones ...
... play was first written in collaboration with another playwright ; that was the version the actors performed . But in preparing the play for publication , Jonson took control of the text : he replaced his collaborator's scenes with ones ...
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... play was , after all , written by the boss . I would argue , on the contrary , that all this means is that Shakespeare would have been in on the revisions . Or might have been : think about the text of Macbeth . We believe the opening ...
... play was , after all , written by the boss . I would argue , on the contrary , that all this means is that Shakespeare would have been in on the revisions . Or might have been : think about the text of Macbeth . We believe the opening ...
Page 1
... play but from notions of how fifteen - year - old girls ought to behave . It bears no relation whatever , needless to say , to any notion of how they really do behave , and to that extent it is a change that makes Miranda less rather ...
... play but from notions of how fifteen - year - old girls ought to behave . It bears no relation whatever , needless to say , to any notion of how they really do behave , and to that extent it is a change that makes Miranda less rather ...
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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