Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions

Author:   Stephen Orgel
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
ISBN:  

9781403911773


Pages:   172
Publication Date:   12 June 2003
Format:   Hardback
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"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. Drawing on performance history, textual history and the visual arts (including a chapter on portraiture), ""Imagining Shakespeare"" demostrates the cultural versatility of the famous Elizabethan."

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Author:   Stephen Orgel
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781403911773


ISBN 10:   1403911770
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   12 June 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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This book would repay, with dividends, its careful study...highly recommended... -Larry Schwartz, Library Journal (starred review)<br> Imagining Shakespeare shows Orgel at his best... No one working in the field could fail to take notice of this book. No one who reads it could fail to be, in almost equal measure, instructed and delighted. -- David Kastan, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University<br>


'As ever, Orgel writes with verve and piercing intelligence. He tackles familiar material and brings it up gleaming bright, fresh and new...All in all, the read is a real delight...' - Professor Peter Holland, Director and Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA Stephen Orgel has arguably been the single most important voice shaping the research agenda of English Renaissance literary studies for the past thirty years. Imagining Shakespeare shows Orgel at his best - lucid, incisive, lively, learned, and always surprising as he teases out the implications of 'what we mean by Shakespeare', as well as how and what Shakespeare can mean. The essays are each subtle, supple, and always wonderfully alert. They are dense and complex but beautifully clear. Orgel is indeed master of all he surveys here, moving almost effortlessly through fields of textual scholarship, performance study, social history, history of art, and impressive local readings of the plays. No one working in the field could fail to take notice of this book. No one who reads it could fail to be, in almost equal measure, instructed and delighted.' - David Kastan, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University 'The author elegantly... explores the changeable natures of [Shakespeare] and the ways in which his dramatic output has been interpreted....This would book would repay, with dividends, careful study by actors, directors and other teachers of literature and drama. Highly recommended. ' - Larry Schwartz, Library Journal '[An] excellent new collection of essays...Orgel provides a history of attempts by 18th and 19th-century artists to produce a likeness more worthy of Shakespeare.' - London Review of Books Orgel is celebrated for his work on the masques of the Stuart court and other visual aspects of Renaissance staging. These elegant and witty chapters return to those concerns but treat a considerable variety of different topics, nearly all lending themselves to vivid illustration. One chapter deals with the now familiar point that Elizabethan plays were necessarily the products of collaboration. More enlivening are a valuable study of the Shakespeare portraits and a brilliantly clever chapter on the sexual undertones of A Midsummer Night's Dream. A study of Shylock gives ample evidence of Orgel's highly individual scholarship.' - Frank Kermode, The New York Times


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STEPHEN ORGEL is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. He has published widely on the political and historical aspects of Renaissance literature, theater, and art history. His work includes Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England, The Illusion of Power, Inigo Jones, and The Jonsonian Masque. He has edited Ben Jonson's masques, Christopher Marlowe's poems and translations, the Oxford Authors John Milton, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in The Oxford Shakespeare, Trollope's Lady Anna, and Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country and The Reef in the Oxford World's Classics.

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