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Imagining Shakespeare
a history of texts and visions
By Orgel, Stephen
- ISBN
- 978-1-40391-177-3
- Publisher
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2003
If Shakespeare were alive today, it's a dead cinch that he would spend most of his time in court suing the various and sundry compilers of the First Folio and railing against unauthorized performances of the not-quite-refined versions of his plays contained therein. Orgel (Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities, Stanford Univ.) writes that what we know as the "texts" of the plays are far from being codified, making a very fluid thing o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
