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For four centuries Twelfth Night has inspired theatre directors and performers: some have found class war; some have seen Malvolio as a tragic hero; some have found a passive Viola and others have found an action woman. Whether a production's emphasis is on gender bending, festivity, or trying to reinvent Shakespeare as Chekhov, the sheer variety of Twelfth Nights on offer over the centuries attests to the play's power as a stimulus to theatrical creativity. The dazzling range of the Twelfth Nights considered here includes the productively wayward as well as the conventionally respectable, productions which play to the contemporary market as well as those that seek to flout tradition. This indispensable stage history covers changing fashions in the fortunes of Twelfth Night, and includes a survey of a wide variety of theatrical interpretations of the play in the English-speaking world.
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For four centuries Twelfth Night has inspired theatre directors and performers. Surveying a dazzling range of Twelfth Night productions - including many significant productions which have not received due critical attention previously - Schafer provides the reader with an indispensable stage history of this popular play, from its first performance to today.
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Elizabeth Schafer is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0333606760
- ISBN 13 9780333606766
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages232
- EditorR.S. White
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Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong Physical description: ix, 221 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / R.S. White -- Shakespeare's Poetical Character in Twelfth Night / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- Twelfth Night: 'The morality of indulgence' / Elliot Krieger -- The Festive Agon : The Politics of Carnival / Michael D. Bristol -- Power on Display : The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres / Leonard Tennenhouse -- Fiction and Friction / Stephen Greenblatt -- 'And all is semblative a woman's part' : Body Politics and Twelfth Night / Dympna Callaghan -- 'What You Will' : Social Mobility and Gender in Twelfth Night / Cristina Malcolmson -- Or What You Will / Barbara Everett. Subjects: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Twelfth night.Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). Twelfth night.Shakespeare, William. Twelfth night. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Twelfth night Criticism and interpretation. Twelfth night (Shakespeare, William)Comedy. Comedy. English drama Early modernand Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 383797
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Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong Physical description: ix, 221 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / R.S. White -- Shakespeare's Poetical Character in Twelfth Night / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- Twelfth Night: 'The morality of indulgence' / Elliot Krieger -- The Festive Agon : The Politics of Carnival / Michael D. Bristol -- Power on Display : The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres / Leonard Tennenhouse -- Fiction and Friction / Stephen Greenblatt -- 'And all is semblative a woman's part' : Body Politics and Twelfth Night / Dympna Callaghan -- 'What You Will' : Social Mobility and Gender in Twelfth Night / Cristina Malcolmson -- Or What You Will / Barbara Everett. Subjects: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Twelfth night.Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). Twelfth night.Shakespeare, William. Twelfth night. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Twelfth night Criticism and interpretation. Twelfth night (Shakespeare, William)Comedy. Comedy. English drama Early modernand Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 383797
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