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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

Or What You Will
3rd Edition
William Shakespeare
Elizabeth Story Donno , Huntington Library, California
Penny Gay , University of Sydney
August 2017
Available
Hardback
9781107126275

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    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.

    • The updated introduction takes into account the substantial performance history and criticism since 2003
    • Includes a revised reading list for the contemporary student reader
    • Offers a new selection of photographs of recent productions of this well-loved Shakespearean comedy

    Product details

    August 2017
    Hardback
    9781107126275
    194 pages
    231 × 152 × 15 mm
    0.45kg
    20 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 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.
      Contributors
    • Penny Gay

    • William Shakespeare
    • Penny Gay , University of Sydney

      Penny Gay is Emeritus Professor in English and Drama at the University of Sydney.

    • Editor
    • Elizabeth Story Donno , Huntington Library, California