Stephen Orgel
Stephen Orgel is Professor of English at Stanford University. Best known as a scholar of Shakespeare, Orgel writes primarily about the political and historical context of Renaissance literature.[1]
Orgel received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1954 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1959.[2] He has taught at Stanford since 1985. He is a noted book collector.[3] He is a major contributor to the body of literature on the Renaissance masque, particularly those of Ben Jonson.
Selected critical works
[edit]- The Jonsonian Masque. Harvard University Press, 1965.
- Ben Jonson: The Complete Masques. Edited by Stephen Orgel. Yale University Press, 1969.
- The Illusion of Power. U California P, 1975.
- Impersonations:The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England. Cambridge, 1996.
- The Authentic Shakespeare. Routledge, 2002.
- Imagining Shakespeare. Palgrave, 2003.
- John Milton: The Major Works. Edited by Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford, 1991.
References
[edit]- ^ Kermode, Frank (11 January 2004). "Avon Calling". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- ^ "Faculty Profile". Stanford University. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- ^ "Talk with book collector Stephen Orgel". YouTube. 18 July 2011.
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