Twelfth Night

by Shakespeare, William; Lothian, J.M.

• ISBN13: 9780312237127
• ISBN10: 031223712X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night reprints the Bevington edition of the play along with seven sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, maps, woodcuts, descriptions of the popular customs associated with Twelfth Night , antitheatrical tracts, royal proclamations concerning dress, laws prohibiting certain sexual acts, poems fantasizing those very acts, early modern texts on household economies, passages from Puritan conduct books, excerpts from Ovid and Montaigne, a representative range of early modern opinions about boy actors, and theories of laughter. Besides contextualizing the audience for Shakespeare's play and shedding light on some of his sources, the documents explore the range of sexual desires articulated in the play, competing ideas about music in early modern culture, religious controversy, the regulation of early modern society according to hierarchies, and the controversial place of laughter in early modern culture. Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an engaging general introduction, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.

Table of Contents

About the Series	vii
About This Volume	ix
List of Illustrations	xvii
Introduction	1	(26)
PART ONE William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or What You Will	27	(86)
David Bevington
PART TWO Cultural Contexts	113	(286)
Romance	115	(41)
Le Prince d'Amour, or The Prince of Love	117	(9)
Sir Benjamin Rudyerd
Place	125	(1)
A Relation of a Journey Begun Anno Domini 1610	126	(2)
George Sandys
The Schoolmaster	128	(5)
Roger Ascham
Barnaby Rich His Farewell to the Military Profession	133	(17)
Barnaby Rich
Time	149	(1)
From The Book of Common Prayer	150	(3)
Antiquitates Vulgares, or the Antiquities of the Common People	153	(3)
Henry Bourne
Music	156	(27)
Musical Resources	158	(3)
Aristotle (Attributed), From The Problems of Aristotle, with Other Philosophers and Physicians	161	(2)
A Woman's Worth Defended Against All the Men in the World	163	(4)
Anthony Gibson
Minds and Bodies	167	(1)
Ovid, From Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized, and Represented in Figures	167	(5)
Plutarch, From Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together	172	(2)
The Praise of Music	174	(6)
John Case (Attributed)
The Passions of the Mind in General	180	(3)
Thomas Wright
Sexuality	183	(54)
Will and Passion	185	(1)
Shake-spear's Sonnets, Never Before Imprinted	185	(4)
William Shakespeare
Heart, Soul, and Genitalia	187	(2)
The Passions of the Mind in General	189	(6)
Thomas Wright
Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man	195	(8)
Helkiah Crooke
Eroticism, Homoeroticism, Paneroticism	201	(2)
Ovid, From The Heroical Epistles of Publius Ovidius Naso in English Verse	203	(4)
Sappho to Philaenis	207	(3)
John Donne
Gallathea	210	(2)
John Lyly
From The Whole Volume of Statutes at Large and Sir Edward Coke, From The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England	212	(6)
Essays	218	(7)
Michel de Montaigne
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus	225	(12)
Francis Beaumont
Clothing and Disguise	237	(42)
From Of Excess of Apparel	240	(3)
An Inventory of Costumes	243	(5)
Edward Alleyn
Philip Henslowe
Social Rank	248	(1)
A Proclamation Enforcing Statutes and Proclamations of Apparel	248	(7)
A Quick for an Upstart Courtier	255	(4)
Robert Greene
I. T. (or J. T.), From The Heaven of Pleasure, Containing a Free Man's Felicity and a True Direction How to Live Well	259	(2)
Gender	261	(1)
Arcadia	261	(4)
Sir Philip Sidney
From Hic Mulier, or The Man-Woman and From Haec-Vir, or The Womanish Man	265	(8)
Eight Accounts of Boy Actors	273	(6)
Household Economies	279	(41)
Decorum	282	(1)
Civil Conversation	282	(4)
Stephano Guazzo
The Golden Grove Moralized in Three Books	286	(6)
William Vaughan
Traditional Hospitality	292	(1)
To Penshurst	292	(5)
Ben Jonson
From Grievous Groans for the Poor	297	(1)
London and the Country Carbonadoed and Quartered into Several Characters	298	(2)
Donald Lupton
Puritan Ideals	300	(1)
I. T. (or J. T.), From The Haven of Pleasure, Containing a Free Man's Felicity and a True Direction How to Live Well	300	(3)
Christian Economy	303	(11)
William Perkins
Alternative Households	312	(2)
Histrio-Mastix, The Players' Scourge or Actors' Tragedy	314	(2)
William Prynne
Last Will and Testament	316	(4)
Augustine Phillips
Puritan Probity	320	(37)
A Wife . . . Whereunto Are Added Many Witty Characters	323	(2)
Sir Thomas Overbury
Religion	325	(1)
English Puritanism	325	(9)
William Bradshaw
A Survey of the Pretended Holy Discipline	334	(2)
Richard Bancroft
Economics	336	(1)
A Godly Form of Household Government	336	(5)
Robert Cleaver
John Dod
The Politics of Mirth	339	(2)
The Anatomy of Abuses in Ailgna	341	(12)
Philip Stubbes
The King's Majesty's Declaration to His Subjects concerning Lawful Sports to be Used	353	(4)
James I
Charles I
Clowning and Laughter	357	(42)
Quintilian, From Institutio Oratoria	358	(6)
Robert Armin's Career	361	(3)
Fool upon Fool, or Six Sorts of Sots	364	(6)
Robert Armin
Quips upon Questions, or A Clown's Conceit on Occasion Offered	370	(6)
Robert Armin
Theories of Laughter: Superiority	375	(1)
Philebus	376	(4)
Plato
Republic	380	(2)
Plato
Nicomachean Ethics	382	(2)
Aristotle
Galateo . . . or rather A Treatise of the Manners and Behaviors It Behooveth a Man to Use and Eschew	384	(3)
Giovanni della Casa
Theories of Laughter: Incongruity	386	(1)
Institutio Oratoria	387	(3)
Quintilian
Theories of Laughter: Relief	389	(1)
Treatise on Laughter	390	(3)
Laurent Joubert
Theories of Laughter: Rejoicing	392	(1)
Treatise on Laughter	393	(2)
Laurent Joubert
A Defense of Poesy	395	(4)
Sir Philip Sidney
Bibliography	399	(15)
Index	414