The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays

by Stephen Orgel

In 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 final and achieved, a play is a work for performance, with each performance based only in part on a text we call a script. That script may well have had imperfections that the actors may or may not have noticed as they turned it into a performance. There...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812253744
• ISBN13: 9780812253740
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"