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Stephen Orgel

b. 1933

American academic, author, and scholar

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About Stephen Orgel

Born 1933. Stephen Orgel is an American literary critic, journalist, academic, university teacher, literary scholar and art historian.

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.

Orgel received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1954 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1959. He has taught at Stanford since 1985. He is a noted book collector. He is a major contributor to the body of literature on the Renaissance masque, particularly those of Ben Jonson.

Selected critical works 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.

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Harvard University, Columbia University
Employers
Stanford University
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship

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Who is Stephen Orgel?

American academic, author, and scholar

When was Stephen Orgel born?

Stephen Orgel was born on 11 April 1933 in New York City.

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Stephen Orgel is a literary critic, journalist, academic, university teacher, literary scholar and art historian.

What nationality is Stephen Orgel?

Stephen Orgel is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Stephen Orgel

· Wikidata: Q125830

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