Twelfth Night Shakespeare William
Twelfth Night Shakespeare William The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. Introductions are regularly refreshed with…
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Twelfth Night Shakespeare William
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems.
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. 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. 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