Twelfth Night

by Paul Edmondson

Overview

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. Students are encouraged to imagine the theatrical challenges of Shakespeare's Illyria afresh for themselves, as well as the thought, creative responses and wonder it has provoked.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403933867
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/18/2017
Series:	Shakespeare Handbooks , #23
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

PAUL EDMONDSON is Head of Education for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and an Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute in the UK. He is co-supervisory General Editor of the New Penguin Shakespeare and author of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
PAUL EDMONDSON is Head of Education for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and an Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute in the UK. He is co-supervisory General Editor of the New Penguin Shakespeare and author of Shakespeare's Sonnets.

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.