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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... theatrical work comprehensible , and " The Poetics of Spectacle " still seems to me to distill its essence . The masque , in fact , is probably a better index to the complexities of Renaissance theater than literary and theatrical ...
... theatrical work comprehensible , and " The Poetics of Spectacle " still seems to me to distill its essence . The masque , in fact , is probably a better index to the complexities of Renaissance theater than literary and theatrical ...
Page 2
... theatrical production , and has replaced it with an independent , printed text , which he consistently refers to , moreover , not as a play but as a poem . This example is , in Jonson's canon , extreme but not uncharacteristic . Why ...
... theatrical production , and has replaced it with an independent , printed text , which he consistently refers to , moreover , not as a play but as a poem . This example is , in Jonson's canon , extreme but not uncharacteristic . Why ...
Page 3
... The publisher was fully entitled to alter the manuscript if he saw fit - the manuscript was his . In this respect the publisher was precisely analogous to the theatrical company or to the recipient of What Is a Text ? 3.
... The publisher was fully entitled to alter the manuscript if he saw fit - the manuscript was his . In this respect the publisher was precisely analogous to the theatrical company or to the recipient of What Is a Text ? 3.
Page 4
... theatrical practice , but about the way writers in fact work . Poets are always rewriting , and there is no reason to think that many of the confusions in Shakespeare's texts don't involve second thoughts , or amalgams of quite separate ...
... theatrical practice , but about the way writers in fact work . Poets are always rewriting , and there is no reason to think that many of the confusions in Shakespeare's texts don't involve second thoughts , or amalgams of quite separate ...
Page 7
... theatrical practice , but also to assumptions about texts in general , and particularly about books , which , to summarize very briefly , did not require them to represent the true , or final , or accurate , or authentic text of the ...
... theatrical practice , but also to assumptions about texts in general , and particularly about books , which , to summarize very briefly , did not require them to represent the true , or final , or accurate , or authentic text of the ...
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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