Twelfth Night Third Series

by Shakespeare, William; Elam, Keir

• ISBN13: 9781903436998
• ISBN10: 1903436990
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-09
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Summary

Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books Essay by Catherine Belsey The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to theworld's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet forShakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open tothe public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performancesand programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

 

List of Illustrations

General Editor's preface

Preface

Introduction

   Ay, That's the Theme: Topics in Twelfth Night

      Endings and Beginnings

      Or What You Will: The Pleasures and Trials of Spectatorship
      We Three: The Interpretation Compulsion

      Around Twelfth Night

      A Very Opal: The Play of Perspective

      'Tis My Picture: Deciphering Visual Images

      Changeable Taffeta: Materials and Materiality

      In What Chapter of his Bosom?: Reading the Body

         Sicken and So Die: Disease, Contagion and Death

         As an Eunuch: Castration, Civility, and Intertextuality

      This is Illyria, Lady: Space and Place

      The Whirligig of Time: Levels of Temporality

      Words are Very Rascals: Language and Discourse

   Make a Good Show On't: Twelfth Night in Performance

      If This Were Played Upon a Stage: Performances Virtual and Actual

      First Night

      Later Nights: Adaptations and Rearrangements

      Our Shows Are More than Will: Victorian Special Effects and Modernist Experiments

      Seasonal Nights

      Illyrian Variations

      The Mettle of Your Sex: Gender and Homoeroticism

      Show You the Picture: Twelfth Night on Film

   Are You A Comedian?: Players and Parts

      Art Any More Than a Steward?: Malvolio

      Your Drunken Cousin: Sir Toby

      An Ass-head and a Coxcomb and a Knave: Sir Andrew

      An Allowed Fool: Feste

      A Noble Duke: Orsino

      Here Comes the Countess: Olivia

      I Am Not That I Play: Viola

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Appendix 1: The Text and Editorial Procedures

Appendix 2: Casting

Appendix 3: Music

Abbreviations and References

   Abbreviations Used in Notes

   Works By and Partly By Shakespeare

   Editions of Shakespeare Collated

   Other Works Cited

Index