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Stephen Orgel

Author of Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

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About the Author

Stephen Orgel is Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is author of many books, including most recently Wit's Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Works by Stephen Orgel

Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England (1996) 58 copies
The Illusion of Power: Political Theater in the English Renaissance (A Quantum Book) (1975) 52 copies
The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces (2015) 26 copies
Imagining Shakespeare (2003) 23 copies
The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage (2002) 23 copies
The Jonsonian Masque (1965) 15 copies
Patronage in the Renaissance (1982) — Editor — 11 copies
The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature (2023) 7 copies
Spectacular Performances: Essays on theatre, imagery, books, and selves in Early Modern England (2011) 7 copies
The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays (2022) 5 copies
Wit's treasury : Renaissance England and the classics (2021) 5 copies
Inigo Jones: Theatre of the Stuart Court (1973) 3 copies
Shakespeare and the Editorial Tradition (1999) — Editor — 3 copies
Shakespeare and the arts (1999) — Editor — 2 copies
Shakespeare and the interpretive tradition (1999) 2 copies
Shakespeare's poems (1999) 2 copies
The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book (2026) 2 copies
Shakespeare in the theatre (1999) — Editor — 1 copy
Shakespeare and the literary tradition (1999) — Editor — 1 copy
Shakespeare and history (1999) — Editor — 1 copy
The Globe in Print: The Book of the Play in the Age of Shakespeare (2024) 1 copy
Postmodern Shakespeare (1999) — Editor — 1 copy
Shakespeare and gender (1999) — Editor — 1 copy
Political Shakespeare (1999) — Editor — 1 copy
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Associated Works

Hamlet (1603) — Editor, some editions — 37,475 copies, 337 reviews
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (1623) — Editor, some editions — 35,731 copies, 177 reviews
Romeo and Juliet (1597) — Editor, some editions — 32,985 copies, 308 reviews
Macbeth (1606) — Editor, some editions — 30,016 copies, 262 reviews
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) — Editor, some editions — 22,406 copies, 203 reviews
Othello (1604) — Editor, some editions — 19,541 copies, 151 reviews
King Lear (1608) — Editor, some editions — 17,210 copies, 168 reviews
Paradise Lost (1667) — Editor, some editions — 16,792 copies, 132 reviews
The Age of Innocence (1920) — Introduction, some editions — 15,873 copies, 336 reviews
The Tempest (1610) — Editor, some editions — 15,780 copies, 191 reviews
Twelfth Night (1601) — Editor, some editions — 12,539 copies, 131 reviews
Julius Caesar (1623) — Editor, some editions — 11,915 copies, 103 reviews
William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (1609) — Editor, some editions — 10,089 copies, 80 reviews
Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) — Editor, some editions — 5,601 copies, 52 reviews
The Winter's Tale (1623) — Editor, some editions — 5,301 copies, 68 reviews
The Comedy of Errors (1623) — Editor, some editions — 3,901 copies, 63 reviews
The Custom of the Country (1913) — Editor, some editions — 2,744 copies, 70 reviews
King John (1623) — Editor, some editions — 1,610 copies, 31 reviews
Lady Anna (1874) — Editor, some editions — 542 copies, 14 reviews
Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream (1967) — Editor, some editions — 426 copies, 4 reviews
Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations (1971) — Editor, some editions — 312 copies, 4 reviews
Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets [Norton Critical Edition] (1975) — Contributor — 238 copies, 2 reviews
Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles (2000) — Introduction — 183 copies, 1 review
Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2001) — Contributor — 99 copies
Staging the Renaissance (1991) — Contributor — 79 copies
Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1979) — Contributor — 76 copies
Performativity and Performance (Essays from the English Institute) (1995) — Contributor — 50 copies
Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies (Material Texts) (2001) — Afterword — 36 copies
The King's Arcadia : Inigo Jones and the Stuart court : a quatercentenary exhibition held at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, from July 12th to September 2nd, 1973 (1973) 24 copies
The RSC Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice (2010) — Editor — 23 copies, 1 review
Shakespeare Studies XXVIII (2000) — Contributor — 6 copies
Essays Principally on the Playhouse and Staging (Renaissance Drama New Ser., No. 4) (1971) — Contributor — 3 copies
Crisis in Editing: Texts of the English Renaissance : Papers Given at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems University of Toront (1994) — Contributor — 2 copies
TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, Volume 8 (1996) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Canonical name
Orgel, Stephen
Legal name
Orgel, Stephen Kitay
Birthdate
1933-03-11
Gender
male
Education
Columbia University (B.A.|1954)
Harvard University (M.A.|1956|Ph.D.|1959)
Occupations
Shakespearean scholar
professor
literary critic
Organizations
Stanford University
Johns Hopkins University
University of California, Berkeley
Modern Language Association of America
Renaissance Society of America
Awards and honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 2005)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
Short biography
Stephen Orgel has published widely on the political and historical aspects of Renaissance literature, theater, art history and the history of the book. His work is interdisciplinary, and is increasingly concerned with the patronage system, the nature of representation, and performance practice in the Renaissance.
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
New York, New York, USA
Places of residence
Stanford, California, USA
Associated Place (for map)
USA

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George Freedley Memorial Award
Barnard Hewitt Award

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ISBNs
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