Twelfth Night

• Main Author: Edmondson, Paul (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Palgrave, 2005.
• Series: The Shakespeare Handbooks
• Subjects: Culture > Study and teaching.; Theater.; Literature, Modern.; Poetry.; British literature.; Cultural and Media Studies.; Theatre and Performance Studies.; Poetry and Poetics.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; British and Irish Literature.

This book opens up Twelfth Night as a play to see and hear, provides useful contextual and source material, and considers the critical and theatrical reception over four centuries. A detailed performance commentary brings to life the many moods of Shakespeare's subtle but robust humour. Student...

Table of Contents:

• General Editor's Preface
• Series Preface
• The Text and Early Performances
• Commentary
• Cultural Context and Sources
• Key Productions and Performances
• The Play on Screen
• Critical Assessments
• Further Reading
• Index.