The Invention of Shakespeare and Other Essays by Stephen Orgel PAPERBACK

The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other EssaysAuthor(s): Stephen Orgel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9781512827941, 978-1512827941\nSynopsis\nA collection of essays that considers the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with complex Shakespearean texts\n 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 were multiple versions of the scripts and never a \""final\"" one. Every revival of a playindeed, every subsequent performancewas and always will be different. Nevertheless, whe""