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  • The Texts of Shakespeare

    The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how the transformation of Shakespeare's scripts was a triumph of both editorial intervention and marketing.By no means the most admired playwright of his time, Shakespeare's most popular work during his lifetime and for ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    Series series Oxford Textual Perspectives
    The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge involving texts. Texts, however, do not need to be books-they are not even necessarily written. The oldest poems were composed to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Globe in Print

    The Book of the Play in the Age of Shakespeare

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    Series series Oxford Textual Perspectives
    How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some editorial process to make it available to readers. The book of the play is not the play on the stage; returning it to the stage for modern audiences is not a simple or straightforward process, nor can we simply read backwards from the texts that have ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater whose plays were less finished artifacts than works in process. In contrast to a book, a thing we have come to think of as final and achieved, a play is a work for performance, with each performance based only in part on a text we call a script. That script may well have had imperfections that the actors may or may not have ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater whose plays were less finished artifacts than works in process. In contrast to a book, a thing we have come to think of as final and achieved, a play is a work for performance, with each performance based only in part on a text we call a script. That script may well have had imperfections that the actors may or may not have ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Wit's Treasury

    Renaissance England and the Classics

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners—indeed, the whole national style—through adapting the classics. But how could English literature, art, and culture, become "classical," not only in imitating the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Reader in the Book

    A Study of Spaces and Traces

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    Series series Oxford Textual Perspectives
    The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them, something that, until very recently, has infuriated modern collectors and librarians. But these inscriptions constitute a significant dimension of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Authentic Shakespeare

    and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    In 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 ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Wit's Treasury

    Renaissance England and the Classics

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners—indeed, the whole national style—through adapting the classics. But how could English literature, art, and culture, become "classical," not only in imitating the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Books and Readers in Early Modern England

    Material Studies

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Books and Readers in Early Modern England

    Material Studies

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • King Lear

    by William Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller ...
    Series series The Pelican Shakespeare
    **The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series designWinner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competitionGold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14**This edition of King Lear presents a conflated text, combining the 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts, edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel and was recently repackaged ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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