William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415303338 ISBN 13: 9780415303330

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415303338
• ISBN 13: 9780415303330
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Massai Sonia