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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512827940
• ISBN13: 9781512827941
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 192 Pages