Twelfth Night: or, What You Will: A Play - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 149538196X ISBN 13: 9781495381966

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

A play by William Shakespeare.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Twelfth Night has seldom been off the stage since Shakespeare's day. It has been performed for its romantic high comedy and its boisterous low comedy; with an emphasis on farce or on autumnal melancholy; as straightforward celebration of heterosexual love and marriage or as exploration of the complexity of gender. David Carnegie and Mark Houlahan's introduction to the play provides a lively discussion of the play's performance history, and encourages readers to think about stagecraft and the play as a performance text, while the historical appendices provide materials that illuminate different thematic elements of the play. Extended notes interleaved throughout the play present relevant illustrations and expand on mythological, historical, and religious references in the play. The accompanying online text will offer additional commentary on staging alternatives and more extensive visual materials.

About the Author:

David Carnegie is Professor of Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Mark Houlahan is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 149538196X
• ISBN 13: 9781495381966
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110