Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions

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 fascinating chapter on portraiture), Imagining Shakespeare displays throughout the cultural versatility, elegance, lucidity and wit which have become the hallmarks of Stephen Orgel's style.

Author: Stephen Orgel
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/12/2003
Pages: 172
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.91h x 6.98w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781403911773

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/15/2003 pg. 59
New York Times 01/11/2004 pg. 9

About the Author
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.