Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays

by Schiffer; James

• ISBN13: 9780415973359
• ISBN10: 041597335X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume in the Shakespeare Criticism series offers a range of approaches to TwelfthNight, including its critical reception, performance history, and relation to early modern culture. James Schiffer#xE2;#xAC;"s extensive introduction surveys the play#xE2;#xAC;"s critical reception and performance history, while individual essays explore a variety of topics relevant to a full appreciation of the play: early modern notions of love, friendship, sexuality, madness, festive ritual, exoticism, social mobility, and detection. The contributors approach these topics from a variety of perspectives, such as new critical, new historicist, cultural materialist, feminist and queer theory, and performance criticism, occasionally combining several approaches within a single essay. The new essays from leading figures in the field explore and extend the key debates surrounding Twelfth Night, creating the ideal book for readers approaching this text for the first time or wishing to further their knowledge of this stimulating, much loved play.

Table of Contents

1. Taking the Long View: Twelfth Night Criticism and Performance: James Schiffer (Northern Michigan University)2. Twelfth Night: Editing Puzzles and Eunuchs of All Kinds: Patricia Parker (Stanford University)3. His Fancy's Queen: Sensing Sexual Strangeness in Twelfth Night: Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California)4. is Love an Emotion? Music, Food and Love in the Affective Landscapes of Twelfth Night: David Schalkwyk (University of Cape Town)5. The Marriage of True Minds: Amity, Twinning, and Comic Closure in Twelfth Night: Laurie Osborne (Colby College)6. Post-Communist Nights: Shakespeare, Essential Masculinity and Western Citizenship: Marcela Kostihovà (Hamline University)7. Masculine Plots in Twelfth Night: Goran Stanivukovic (University of Sheffield)8. Beyond the Lyric in Illyricum: Some Early Modern Backgrounds to Twelfth Night: Elizabeth Pentland (Stanford University)9. Domesticating Strangeness in Twelfth Night: Catherine Lisak (Universitè de Bordeaux III)10. Staging the Exotic in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Nathalie Rivére de Carles (Universitè de Poitiers)11. The Text Remains for Another Attempt: Twelfth Night, or What You Will on the German Stage: Christa Jansohn (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) 12. What He Wills: Early Modern Rings and Vows in Twelfth Night: Alan Powers (Bristol Community College)13. Madness and Social Mobility in Twelfth Night: Ivo Kamps (University of Mississippi)14. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and the New Orleans Twelfth Night Revelers: Jennifer Vaught (University of Louisiana-Lafayette)15. Whodunnit? Plot, Plotting, and Detection in Twelfth Night: Cynthia Lewis (Davidson College)