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This volume presents a wide range of recent critical essays exemplifying different approaches to Shakespeare's work in general and Twelfth Night in particular. Essays are written from positions of new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, reader response, and others. The introduction, written especially for the volume, makes accessible to students at all levels the diversity of the contemporary study of Shakespeare and its wider importance.
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For four centuries Twelfth Night has inspired theatre directors and performers. Surveying a dazzling range of Twelfth Night productions – including many significant productions which have not received due critical attention previously – Schafer provides the reader with an indispensable stage history of this popular play, from its first performance to today.
About the Author:
William Shakespeare was born some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and died in 1616. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
Stanley Wells is Emeritus Professor of the University of Birmingham and Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Michael Dobson is Director of the Shakespeare Institute and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0333606760
- ISBN 13 9780333606766
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages232
- EditorWhite R. S.
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Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong Physical description: ix, 221 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / R.S. White -- Shakespeare's Poetical Character in Twelfth Night / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- Twelfth Night: 'The morality of indulgence' / Elliot Krieger -- The Festive Agon : The Politics of Carnival / Michael D. Bristol -- Power on Display : The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres / Leonard Tennenhouse -- Fiction and Friction / Stephen Greenblatt -- 'And all is semblative a woman's part' : Body Politics and Twelfth Night / Dympna Callaghan -- 'What You Will' : Social Mobility and Gender in Twelfth Night / Cristina Malcolmson -- Or What You Will / Barbara Everett. Subjects: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Twelfth night.Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). Twelfth night.Shakespeare, William. Twelfth night. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Twelfth night Criticism and interpretation. Twelfth night (Shakespeare, William)Comedy. Comedy. English drama Early modernand Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 383797
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Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong Physical description: ix, 221 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / R.S. White -- Shakespeare's Poetical Character in Twelfth Night / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- Twelfth Night: 'The morality of indulgence' / Elliot Krieger -- The Festive Agon : The Politics of Carnival / Michael D. Bristol -- Power on Display : The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres / Leonard Tennenhouse -- Fiction and Friction / Stephen Greenblatt -- 'And all is semblative a woman's part' : Body Politics and Twelfth Night / Dympna Callaghan -- 'What You Will' : Social Mobility and Gender in Twelfth Night / Cristina Malcolmson -- Or What You Will / Barbara Everett. Subjects: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Twelfth night.Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). Twelfth night.Shakespeare, William. Twelfth night. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Twelfth night Criticism and interpretation. Twelfth night (Shakespeare, William)Comedy. Comedy. English drama Early modernand Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 383797
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