Stephen Orgel is the J. E. Reynolds Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Stanford University. His most recent books are The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature (OUP, 2022), The Invention of Shakespeare and Other Essays (2022), Wit's Treasury (2021), The Reader in the Book (OUP, 2015), Spectacular Performances (2011), Imagining Shakespeare (2003), and The Authentic Shakespeare (2002). He is the general editor of the New Pelican Shakespeare, and has edited The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in the Oxford Shakespeare.