Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) - Hardcover

Shakespeare, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107126274 ISBN 13: 9781107126275

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This third edition of Twelfth Night retains the text edited and annotated by Elizabeth Story Donno for the first edition of 1985, and features an updated introduction by Penny Gay, which focuses on recent scholarship and performance history. Building on her Introduction to the second edition, Gay stresses the play's theatricality, its elaborate linguistic games and its complex use of Ovidian myths. She analyses the delicate balance Shakespeare strikes in Twelfth Night between romance and realism, and explores representations of gender, sexuality and identity in the text. A selection of new photographs completes the edition.

About this title

Book Description:

For this third edition of Twelfth Night, Penny Gay has updated her Introduction to this well-loved Shakespearean comedy and has also provided a refreshed reading list. The edition features a thorough performance history, which focuses on a number of important recent performances and includes a new selection of photographs.

About the Author:

Penny Gay is Emeritus Professor in English and Drama at the University of Sydney.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1107126274
• ISBN 13: 9781107126275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 194
• Editor: Donno Elizabeth Story