The authentic Shakespeare, and other problems of the early modern stage - Orgel, Stephen (New York : Routledge, 2002)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-270) and index.
Keywords: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625.; Playwriting -- History -- 16th century; Playwriting -- History -- 17th century; Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century; Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century