Stephen Orgel

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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.

[edit] Selected critical works

  • 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.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kermode, Frank (11 January 2004). "Avon Calling". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/books/review/11KERMODT.html. Retrieved 3 January 2010. [dead link]
  2. ^ "Faculty Profile". Stanford University. http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=91. Retrieved 3 January 2010. 


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