Twelfth Night (New Penguin Shakespeare S.)

by William Shakespeare (Author), William Shakespeare (Author), M. Mahood (Author)

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  Paperback
  1973

  $3.57

  Part of The New Penguin Shakespeare series, this text looks at Twelfth Night with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems of the play. The series is used and recommended by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

• Used

  Paperback
  1975

  $19.32

• Used

  Hardcover
  1972

  $3.41

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $7.16

  Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Variously melancholy, lyrical, joyous and farcical, Twelfth Night has long been a popular comedy with Shakespearian audiences. The main plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love. Both Olivia and Orsino are attracted to Viola, who is disguised as a young man; and Viola's brother, Sebastian, finds that he is loved not only by Antonio but also by Olivia. Meanwhile, in the comic sub-plot, Sir Toby Belch and his companions outwit the vain Malvolio, who is ludicrously humiliated. While offering broad comedy, Twelfth Night teasingly probes gender-roles and sexual ambiguities.