The Globe in Print: The Book of the Play in the Age of Shakespeare

by Stephen Orgel

Book Overview

How 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 book of the play is not the play on the stage; returning it to the stage for modern audiences is not a simple or straightforward process, nor can we simply read backwards from the texts that have come down to us to deduce what Shakespeare's or Jonson's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198920547
• ISBN13: 9780198920540
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.0"