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Twelfth night, or, what you will / William Shakespeare ; edited by David Carnegie and Mark Houlahan.

Title
Twelfth night, or, what you will / William Shakespeare ; edited by David Carnegie and Mark Houlahan.
Author
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publication
Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Carnegie, David, 1943-
  • Houlahan, Mark, 1960-
  • Internet Shakespeare Editions.
Description
301 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
Twelfth Night has seldom been off the stage since Shakespeare's day. It has been performed for its romantic high comedy and its boisterous low comedy; with an emphasis on farce or on autumnal melancholy; as straightforward celebration of heterosexual love and marriage or as exploration of the complexity of gender. David Carnegie and Mark Houlahan's introduction to the play provides a lively discussion of the play's performance history and encourages readers to think about stagecraft and the play as a performance text, while the historical appendices provide materials that illuminate different thematic elements of the play. Extended notes interleaved throughout the play present relevant illustrations and expand on mythological, historical, and religious references in the play. The accompanying online text will offer additional commentary on staging alternatives and more extensive visual materials.
Series Statement
Broadview / Internet Shakespeare Editions
Uniform Title
  • Twelfth night
  • Broadview / Internet Shakespeare Editions.
Alternative Title
  • Twelfth night
  • What you will
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  • Shipwreck survival > Drama
  • Siblings > Drama
  • Mistaken identity > Drama
  • Twins > Drama
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Mistaken identity
  • Shipwreck survival
  • Twins
  • Illyria > Drama
  • Europe > Illyria
Genre/Form
  • Comedies
  • Drama
  • Drama.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Appendix A. Sources. From Barnabe Ricbe, "Of Apollonius and Silla" (1581) ; From Gl;Ingannati -- the deceived (1531) -- Appendix B. Renaissance shipwrecks. From Heliodorus, An aethiopian History, trans. Thomas Underdowne (1587) ; From Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1593) -- Appendix C. Twins and affinity. A note on the text From Plautus, Menaechmi ; trans. William Warner (1595) ; From William Shakespeare, The comedy of errors (c. 1593) ; From George Puttenham, "Hendiadys, or The figure of twins" (1589) ; From Michel de Montaigne, "Of friendship", trans. John Florio (1603) ; From Richard Brathwaite, The English gentleman (1633) -- Appendix D. Gender and disguise. From Plato, The symposium (c. 380 BCE) ; From John Lyly, Galatea (1592) ; William Shakespeare, Sonnet 20 (1609) ; From Stephen Gosson, Plays confuted in five actions (1582) ; From Hic Mulier, or, The man-woman (1620) -- Appendix E. Manners and codes. From Baldassare Castiglione, The book of the courtier, trans. Sir Thomas Hoby (1561) ; From Giles Rose, A perfect school of instructions (1682) ; From Henry Swinburne, A treatise of spousals, or, Matrimonial contracts (1686)
  • Appendix F. Fools, Festivity, and misrule. From Robert Armin, Fool upon Fool (1600) ; From Robert Armin, Quips upon questions (1600) ; From Philip Stubbes, The anatomy of abuses (1583) ; From Thomas Nashe, Summer's last will and testament ; From Revels Office Documents on the Lord of Misrule (1551) ; From the records of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1566) ; From Shropshire parish documents (1556-1635) ; From Sir John Harington, "On the entertainment for the King of Denmark" (1606) ; From "King James, Declaration to the Bishop of Chester, 24 May 1618" ; From Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Le prince d'amour, or, The prince of love (1660) -- Appendix G. Puritanism. From The pilgrimage to Parnassus (c. 1598-1602) ; From Thomas Nashe, The return of the renowned Cavaliero Pasquil of England (1589) ; From Thomas Nashe, Martin's month's mind (1589) ; From Thomas Nashe, A countercuff given to Martin Junior (1589) -- Appendix H. Music. From Marsilio Ficino, Commentary on Plato's Symposium (1474) ; From Cicero, On the Commonwealth and on the laws (c. 50 BCE) ; From Thomas Wright, The passions of the mind in general (1604)
ISBN
  • 9781554810949 (pbk.)
  • 1554810949 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 872944585
  • SCSB-12481743
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library