Stephen Kitay Orgel

He is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford. His most recent book is The Reader in the Book, and he is the author of Spectacular Performances, Imagining Shakespeare, The Authentic Shakespeare, Impersonations: The Performance of gender in Shakespeare's England,  The Illusion of Power, Inigo Jones, and The Jonsonian Masque. He edited Ben Jonson's masques, Christopher Marlowe's poems and translations, the Oxford Authors John Milton, The Tempest, and The Winter's Tale in the Oxford Shakespeare, Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and Pericles in the New Pelican Shakespeare, Trollope's Lady Anna, and Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and The Reef in the Oxford World's Classics. He is the general editor of Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, and of the new Pelican Shakespeare.