Twelfth Night : Or, What You Will
by Shakespeare, WilliamEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-04-01
Publisher(s): SIGNET
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Summary
Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. It also contains dramatic criticism from the past and present, and a special introduction to the play by the editor, Herschel Baker, Harvard University.
Table of Contents
| Shakespeare: An Overview | p. vii |
| Biographical Sketch | p. vii |
| A Note on the Anti-Stratfordians, Especially Baconians and Oxfordians | p. xi |
| The Shakespeare Canon | p. xv |
| Shakespeare's English | p. xviii |
| Shakespeare's Theater | p. xxvi |
| A Note on the Use of Boy Actors in Female Roles | p. xxxiii |
| Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: Costumes, Gestures and Silences; Prose and Poetry | p. xxxvi |
| The Play Text as a Collaboration | p. xliii |
| Editing Texts | p. xlix |
| Shakespeare on the Stage | p. liv |
| Introduction | p. lxiii |
| Twelfth Night | p. 1 |
| Textual Note | p. 105 |
| The Source of Twelfth Night | p. 108 |
| Of Apolonius and Silla | p. 110 |
| Commentaries | |
| From The Plays of William Shakespeare | p. 131 |
| From Characters of Shakespear's Plays | p. 133 |
| On the Character of Malvolio | p. 136 |
| Director's Preface | p. 139 |
| Comedy, Women, and Development | p. 146 |
| Androgyny in Twelfth Night | p. 152 |
| Cross-dressing in Twelfth Night | p. 159 |
| Twelfth Night on Stage and Screen | p. 164 |
| Suggested References | p. 175 |
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