Twelfth Night (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) - Softcover

William Shakespeare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904271154 ISBN 13: 9781904271154

Publisher: Arden, 1975

Synopsis

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Twelfth Night provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.

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 Emeritus 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: Arden
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 1904271154
• ISBN 13: 9781904271154
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 449
• Editor: J. M. Lothian, T.W. Craik