
Twelfth Night
Or What You Will
William Shakespeare(Author)
Elizabeth Story Donno(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
3rd Edition
Will be published approx. on 17. August 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
194 pages
978-1-107-56546-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
293 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-56546-3 (9781107565463)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition

Book
02/2004
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
€11.13
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Persons
Penny Gay is Emeritus Professor in English and Drama at the University of Sydney.
Content
Preface to the first edition; Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction Penny Gay; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Reading list.