The invention of Shakespeare, and other essays / Stephen Orgel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orgel, Stephen, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism, Textual.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Theater.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays Stephen Orgel brings together twelve essays that consider the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, often including errors or confusions, and the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with them in commentary or performance. 'There is always some underlying claim that we are getting back to 'what Shakespeare actually wrote,' Orgel writes, 'but obviously that is not true: we clarify, we modernize, we undo muddles, we correct or explain (or explain away) errors, all in the interests of getting a clear, readable, unproblematic text. In short, we produce the text that we want him to, or think he must have written. But one thing we really do know about Shakespeare's original text is that it was hard to read.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The invention of Shakespeare

The desire and pursuit of the whole

No sense of an ending

Lascivious grace: seductive evil in Shakespeare and Jonson

The poetics of incomprehensibility

Two household friends: The plausibility of Romeo and Juliet Q1

Getting things wrong

Food for thought

Revising King Lear

Venice at the Globe

Danny Scheie's Shakespeare

Shakespeare all'italiana.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812253740

0812253744

OCLC:

1256627895