
Twelfth Night
Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes
William Shakespeare(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 3. September 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-241-81692-9 (ISBN)
Description
With a foreword by Bea Fitzgerald, author of A Beautiful Evil and The End Crowns All.
'O time, thou must untangle this, not I.'
Rediscover Shakespeare's tale of crossed loves and mistaken identities.
Love gets complicated.
After a catastrophic shipwreck, identical twins Viola and Sebastian are separated, each believing that the other is dead. To get her life back on track, Viola begins dressing as a man and working for Duke Orsino - mostly passing love letters to his beau, Countess Olivia. Unfortunately, Viola fancies the Duke for herself, and Olivia has fallen for Viola!
All it would take was another Viola in play to set the whole thing unravelling ...
Discover STAGED, a limited collection of Shakespeare's unabridged plays that celebrates the genius of the Bard and the tropes that continue to delight YA readers to this day.
Explore the rest of the STAGED collection:As You Like It - With a foreword by Talia Hibbert
Hamlet - With a foreword by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
Macbeth - With a foreword by Kat Delacorte
A Midsummer Night's Dream - With a foreword by Becky Albertalli
Much Ado About Nothing - With a foreword by Holly Bourne
Romeo and Juliet - With a foreword by Jennifer Niven
Julius Caesar - With a foreword by Simon James Green
King Lear - With a foreword by Manjeet Mann
The Merchant of Venice - With a foreword by Lev Rosen
Othello - With a foreword by Malorie Blackman
The Tempest - With a foreword by Katherine Webber
Twelfth Night - With a foreword by Bea Fitzgerald
'O time, thou must untangle this, not I.'
Rediscover Shakespeare's tale of crossed loves and mistaken identities.
Love gets complicated.
After a catastrophic shipwreck, identical twins Viola and Sebastian are separated, each believing that the other is dead. To get her life back on track, Viola begins dressing as a man and working for Duke Orsino - mostly passing love letters to his beau, Countess Olivia. Unfortunately, Viola fancies the Duke for herself, and Olivia has fallen for Viola!
All it would take was another Viola in play to set the whole thing unravelling ...
Discover STAGED, a limited collection of Shakespeare's unabridged plays that celebrates the genius of the Bard and the tropes that continue to delight YA readers to this day.
Explore the rest of the STAGED collection:As You Like It - With a foreword by Talia Hibbert
Hamlet - With a foreword by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
Macbeth - With a foreword by Kat Delacorte
A Midsummer Night's Dream - With a foreword by Becky Albertalli
Much Ado About Nothing - With a foreword by Holly Bourne
Romeo and Juliet - With a foreword by Jennifer Niven
Julius Caesar - With a foreword by Simon James Green
King Lear - With a foreword by Manjeet Mann
The Merchant of Venice - With a foreword by Lev Rosen
Othello - With a foreword by Malorie Blackman
The Tempest - With a foreword by Katherine Webber
Twelfth Night - With a foreword by Bea Fitzgerald
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Target group
Children/juvenile
Young adult
Interest Age: From 13 to 17 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-81692-9 (9780241816929)
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Person
William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which number among the most profound and influential love poetry in English. Shakespeare died in Stratford in 1616.