The texts of Shakespeare : the transformation of popular theatre to printed book /
How did plays from the popular theater, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how the transformation of Shakespeare's scripts was a triumph of both editorial intervention and marketing. By exam...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Arden Shakespeare,
[2026].
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| Series: | Arden Shakespeare (Critical studies)
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| Summary: | How did plays from the popular theater, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how the transformation of Shakespeare's scripts was a triumph of both editorial intervention and marketing. By examining the process of transformation from performance script to published book, Orgel provides an accessible story of the making of Shakespeare's reputation in print and of how the publication of his plays in a grand folio made a radical claim for his plays as literature, in effect declaring his plays modern classics. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 180 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350561052 1350561053 9781350561045 1350561045 |