Stephen OrgelThe Authentic Shakespeare
and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage
Collects fifteen important essays by one of the most prominent scholars of Shakespeare studies. Humanities at Stanford. Among his many publications are Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England, The Illusion of Power, Inigo Jones (with Sir Roy Strong), and The Jonsonian Masque. He has published numerous editions of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marlowe, and is the general editor of the New Pelican Shakespeare
List of Illustrations A Retrospective Preface 1.What is a Text? 2. What is
a Character? 3. What is an Editor? 4. Acting Scripts, Performing Texts 5.
The Poetics of Spectacle 6. The Spectacles of State 7. The Renaissance Poet
as Plagiarist 8. Gendering the Crown 9. The Play of Conscience 10.
Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama 11. Macbeth and the Antic Round 12.
Prospero's Wife 13. Marginal Jonson 14. Tobacco and Boys 15. The Authentic
Shakespeare Index