Twelfth Night
Part of Shakespeare in Production
- Real Author: William Shakespeare
- Editor: Elizabeth Schafer, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Date Published: June 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521532204
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For four centuries Twelfth Night has inspired theatre directors and performers: some have found class war; some have seen Malvolio as a tragic hero; some have found a passive Viola and others have found an action woman. Whether a production's emphasis is on gender bending, festivity, or trying to reinvent Shakespeare as Chekhov, the sheer variety of Twelfth Nights on offer over the centuries attests to the play's power as a stimulus to theatrical creativity. The dazzling range of the Twelfth Nights considered here includes the productively wayward as well as the conventionally respectable, productions which play to the contemporary market as well as those that seek to flout tradition. This indispensable stage history covers changing fashions in the fortunes of Twelfth Night, and includes a survey of a wide variety of theatrical interpretations of the play in the English-speaking world.
Read more- The first stage history edition available for Twelfth Night
- Includes a complete list of productions, giving a detailed overview of Twelfth Night's popularity over four centuries
- The critical introduction provides thorough analysis of theatre history, surveying the changing fashions in the fortunes of Twelfth Night
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521532204
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 154 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of productions
Introduction
List of characters
Twelfth Night and commentary
Appendix: adaptations.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Shakespeare: Selected Plays
- Writing About Literature
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