Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 3, 8/17/2017
EAN 9781107126275, ISBN10: 1107126274
Hardcover, 194 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This third edition of Twelfth Night retains the text edited and annotated by Elizabeth Story Donno for the first edition of 1985, and features an updated introduction by Penny Gay, which focuses on recent scholarship and performance history. Building on her Introduction to the second edition, Gay stresses the play's theatricality, its elaborate linguistic games and its complex use of Ovidian myths. She analyses the delicate balance Shakespeare strikes in Twelfth Night between romance and realism, and explores representations of gender, sexuality and identity in the text. A selection of new photographs completes the edition.
Preface to the first edition
Preface
Abbreviations and conventions
Introduction Penny Gay
Note on the text
List of characters
The play
Textual analysis
Reading list.