In The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays Stephen Orgel brings together twelve essays that consider the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, which oft

Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching S

In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater whose plays were less finished artifacts than works in process. In contrast to a book,

In this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way

An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.