Bøker av Stephen Orgel

Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? This question prompts Stephen Orgel's exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations reshapes our understanding of Renaissance theatre and culture.

In The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays Stephen Orgel brings together twelve essays that consider the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, which often include errors or confusions, and the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with them in commentary or performance.

In Wit's Treasury, Stephen Orgel, one of our foremost interpreters of Renaissance literature and culture, charts how the conflict between Christian principles and classical manners and morals yielded the rich creative tension out of which emerged an unprecedented flowering of English drama, lyric, and the arts.

Beautifully illustrated, 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.

A facsimile edition of Lady Eleanor Davies' pre-1640 texts. It features 60 texts from the corpus of 66 printed between 1641 and 1652.

Illusion of Power - Political Theater in the English Renaissance.

In this beautifully illustrated book, one of the foremost Shakespeareans of our time explores the ways in which Shakespeare has been imagined from his time to ours.