Background
Orgel, Stephen Kitay was born on April 11, 1933 in New York City. Son of Samuel Zachary and Esther (Kitay) Orgel.
( In this beautifully illustrated book, one of the foremo...)
In this beautifully illustrated book, one of the foremost Shakespeareans of our time explores the ways in which Shakespeare has been imagined from his time to ours. In a penetrating series of interpretations, Stephen Orgel explores the ironies and paradoxes that have characterized the reconstruction of Shakespeare's texts, his image, the staging and illustration of his plays over the past four centuries, as he is perennially reinvented for new cultural ends. Drawing on performance history, textual history, and the visual arts (including a fascinating chapter on portraiture), Imagining Shakespeare displays throughout the cultural versatility, elegance, lucidity, and wit which have become the hallmarks of Orgel's style.
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(Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an...)
Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theater in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations will reshape our understanding of the Renaissance theater, and make us rethink our own inadequate categories of gender, power and sexuality.
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"Elegant, deeply learned, and intellectually adventurous, its implications extend far beyond the boundaries of the Stuart and Caroline masque. It is an indispensable, exploration of political art and aestheticized politics. . . . a classic." --Stephen Greenblatt, University of California, Berkeley "A triumph of scholarship, insight, and explication, Oregel's book is truly a classic in the field of Renaissance studies. Anyone interested in Renaissance culture will find here a masterful analysis of its celebration of royal power." --Coppelia Kahn, Brown University "As knowing of art, theatrical and political history as it is sensitive to poetry, Orgel's book is learned, lively, and beautifully clear." --John Hollander, Yale University "A foundational text for the New Historicist Perspective in English Renaissance literary and cultural studies . . . as informative and suggestive as it was when new; in the clarity and grace of its writing, the breadth and precision of its arguments, the aptness and resonance of its examples, it is unsurpassed as an introduction to the dialectic of theatrical illusion and state authority--of play and power--in the culture of Elizabethan and Stuart England." --Louis Montrose, University of California, San Diego
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Orgel, Stephen Kitay was born on April 11, 1933 in New York City. Son of Samuel Zachary and Esther (Kitay) Orgel.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy (Woodrow Wilson fellow), Harvard, 1959.
Instructor in English, Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959-1960; assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-1966; associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1966-1972; professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1976; professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1976-1982; Sir William Osler professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1982-1985; Jackson Eli Reynolds professor humanities, Stanford (California) U., since 1987. Board supervisors English Institute, 1974-1977, chairman, 1976-1977.
(Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an...)
( In this beautifully illustrated book, one of the foremo...)
( "Elegant, deeply learned, and intellectually adventurou...)
( The fourteen essays in this collection explore the domi...)
(Book by John Harris, Stephen Orgel, Roy Strong)
(First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Modern Language Association, Renaissance Society of America, Shakespeare Association American.