William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night A Sourcebook
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night A Sourcebook by Sonia Massai, published by Routledge in 2007, is a comprehensive guide to one of Shakespeare’s most captivating plays. This edition spans 198 pages and is presented in English, offering an insightful exploration of the comedy’s themes, including gender identity and role-playing, as well as the complexities of manipulation and deception.
Readers will find extensive introductory commentary on the contexts, critical history, and performance of Twelfth Night from its publication to the present. The sourcebook includes annotated extracts from key documents, reviews, and critical works, along with cross-references that suggest connections between various texts and criticism. This volume serves as a valuable resource for those beginning a detailed study of Twelfth Night, providing a structured approach to the wealth of contextual and critical material surrounding Shakespeare’s work.
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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.
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