The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book
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How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how the transformation of Shakespeare's scripts was a triumph of both editorial intervention and marketing.
By no means the most admired playwright of his time, Shakespeare's most popular work during his lifetime and for decades afterwards was the long poem Venus and Adonis, first published in 1593. It wasn't unti...
By no means the most admired playwright of his time, Shakespeare's most popular work during his lifetime and for decades afterwards was the long poem Venus and Adonis, first published in 1593. It wasn't unti...






















