Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Edition Statement:Third edition.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Descriptionxv, 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Previous ed. published: 2004.
Note:Text is based on the first folio of 1623.
Note:Introduction -- Date and early performances -- The play's sources -- Imaginary geography and stage space -- Puritans and clowns -- Time, chance and the poetry of romance -- Myths and metamorphosis -- Gender sexuality and the stage -- Language -- Riddles -- Music -- Critical fashions -- Stage history -- 'Autumnal' Twelfth Nights -- Carnival Twelfth Nights -- Local Shakespeares -- 'Original practices' -- Adaptations -- Note on the text -- List of characters -- The play -- Textual analysis -- Reading list.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178).
Note:"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." -- Publisher's description.
Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries.
