Orgel, Stephen.

The authentic Shakespeare, and other problems of the early modern stage / Stephen Orgel. - New York : Routledge, 2002. - 276 p. : ill ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-270) and index.

What is a text? -- What is a character? -- What is an editor? -- Acting scripts, performing texts -- The poetics of spectacle -- The spectacles of state -- The Renaissance poet as plagiarist -- Gendering the crown -- The play of conscience -- Shakespeare and the kinds of drama -- Macbeth and the antic round -- Prospero's wife -- Marginal Jonson -- Tobacco and boys -- The authentic Shakespeare.

0415900131 (acid-free paper) 041591213X (pbk. : alk. paper)

2002003625


Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism, Textual.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Stage history--To 1625.


Playwriting--History--16th century.
Playwriting--History--17th century.
Theater--History--England--16th century.
Theater--History--England--17th century.

PR3095 / .O73 2002

822.309 ORG