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The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays by Stephen Orgel
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.81In 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... -
The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature by Stephen Orgel 9780192871534
RRP: $118.95Booksplease Price: $99.02The 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... -
Ben Jonson: Selected Masques by Stephen Orgel 9780300012590
Booksplease Price: $73.01The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects was transformed by Ben Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression... -
Wit's Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics by Stephen Orgel
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $42.78As 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... -
The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature by Stephen Orgel 9780192871589
Booksplease Price: $48.87The 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... -
The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays Professor Stephen Orgel 9781512827941
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53A collection of essays that considers the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with complex Shakespearean texts In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater... -
The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces by Stephen Orgel 9780198737568
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $67.80The 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... -
Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions by Stephen Orgel 9781403911773
Booksplease Price: $90.83In 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,... -
The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces by Stephen Orgel 9780198737551
Booksplease Price: $65.52The 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... -
Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England by Stephen Orgel 9780521568425
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $79.91Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of... -
The Globe in Print: The Book of the Play in the Age of Shakespeare Stephen Orgel 9780198920540
Booksplease Price: $45.22How 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 Globe in Print: The Book of the Play in the Age of Shakespeare Stephen Orgel 9780198920557
Booksplease Price: $154.93How 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 Illusion of Power: Political Theater in the English Renaissance by Stephen Orgel 9780520027411
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $37.50"Elegant, deeply learned, and intellectually adventurous, its implications extend far beyond the boundaries of the Stuart and Caroline masque. It is an indispensable, exploration of political art and... -
The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage by Stephen Orgel
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51In 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... -
The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book Stephen Orgel 9781350561052
Booksplease Price: $128.64How 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... -
The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book Stephen Orgel 9781350561045
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.48How 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... -
Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England by Stephen Orgel 9780719081682
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $120.72Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James?... -
Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England by Stephen Orgel 9780719081699
Booksplease Price: $45.90Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James?... -
Staging the Renaissance by David Scott Kastan
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.84The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some... -
Ben Jonson and Theatre: Performance, Practice and Theory Richard Cave 9780415179812
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Ben Jonson and Theatre is an investigation and celebration of Jonson's plays from the point of view of the theatre practitioner as well as the teacher. Reflecting the increasing interest in the wider... -
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England Kathryn R. McPherson 9781138251854
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $95.63Performing Maternity in Early Modern England features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the... -
Shakespeare After Theory by David Scott Kastan 9780415901130
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin... -
The Regal Phantasm: Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle by Christopher Pye
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare's Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural... -
Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Liam Haydon 9781912453559
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $36.54What is a self? Greenblatt argues that the 16th century saw the awakening of modern self-consciousness, the ability to fashion an identity out of the culture and politics of one's society. In a... -
An Analysis of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare Liam Haydon 9781912453108
Booksplease Price: $13.03What is a self? Greenblatt argues that the 16th century saw the awakening of modern self-consciousness, the ability to fashion an identity out of the culture and politics of one's society. In a... -
Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres: Stage and audience Anthony W. Johnson 9780367140502
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $88.20Twenty-two leading experts on early modern drama collaborate in this volumeto explore three closely interconnected research questions. To what extent didplaywrights represent dramatis personae in... -
Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England Douglas A. Brooks 9781138274679
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.93The relation between procreation and authorship, between reproduction and publication, has a long history - indeed, that relationship may well be the very foundation of history itself. The essays in... -
Henry V by William Shakespeare 9780143130246
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $13.73The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with... -
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9780140714609
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.01The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with... -
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $105.73This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780199535743
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.10'Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world... Sing heavenly muse' From almost the moment of its first publication in... -
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780521678377
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.44The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays... -
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780521861182
RRP: $122.85Booksplease Price: $115.32The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays... -
As You Like It by William Shakespeare 9780143130239
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.27The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9780143130222
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.00The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with... -
Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture by Alessandra Petrina 9780230278172
Booksplease Price: $176.59The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her life and after her death, through her own writing as well as through contemporary and later writers. The... -
Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry Elizabeth D. Harvey 9780226318769
Booksplease Price: $62.99This collection gathers new essays by critics and scholars who are currently reshaping our sense of the function and nature of seventeenth-century poetry. Contributors return to the New Critical... -
The Tempest: Contemporary Critical Essays by R. White 9780333644423
Booksplease Price: $65.31The Tempest has not only generated many creative adaptations in drama, poetry, novels and films, but it has also proved a testing ground for virtually all the new literary theories available. This... -
The Third Voyage Journals: Writing and Performance in the London East India Company, 1607-10 by R. Barbour 9780230616752
Booksplease Price: $90.25This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-10), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a... -
Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare by Sophie Chiari 9781474427814
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $185.27To the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry,...