William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-415-30333-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

Reihe: Routledge Guides to Literature

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.1600) is one of his most captivating plays. A comedy of mistaken identities, it has given rise to thought-provoking debates around such issues as gender identity and role-playing, manipulation and deception.

Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's spirited play offers:

- extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to the present

- annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself

- cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism

- suggestions for further reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Twelfth Night and seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeare's text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massai, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Contexts 2. Interpretations 3. Key Passages 4. Further Reading Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sonia Massai is a Lecturer at King’s College London. She has published widely on Shakespeare and drama and has edited several original plays and a collection of essays on World Wide Shakespeares (Routledge, 2005).