Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will (World's Classics)

by WilliamShakespeare (Author), StanleyW.Wells (Editor), RogerWarren (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $4.03

  In the modern theater, Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities in both the introduction and the full and detailed commentary. Where original music has not survived, James Walker has composed settings compatible with the surviving originals, freshly edited so that this edition, unique among modern editions, offers all the music required to perform the play. It will be invaluable to actors, directors, and students at all levels.

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  Paperback
  1986

  $3.24

  Here to enhance any young person's enjoyment and understanding of Shakespeare is a new addition to Oxford's definitive paperback series. Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's most engaging comedies with characters that remain alive even today: Viola speaks for every young girl in love; drunken rogues like Sir Toby Belch still take advantage of cowardly weaklings like Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and plot the downfall of pompous officials like Malvolio.
  Like all the volumes in the series, the book contains the full text of the play, notes on the main characters, simple explanations of difficult words and phrases, a scene-by- scene commentary, and a brief biography of the bard. Each page is divided into two columns so that the text and accompanying notes appear side by side. Attractive line drawings appear throughout.
  Editor Roma Gill's sensitivity to first-time readers of Shakespeare makes this series truly accessible. In her introduction she says, Don't worry too much if you don't fully understand the language at first. A modern poet, T. S. Eliot, said that the best poetry, even in a foreign language, will mean something to the reader before it is properly understood.
  Also in the Oxford School Shakespeare series:
  As You Like It -831934-7
  Henry IV, Part I -831948-7
  Julius Caesar -831935-5
  Macbeth -831933-9
  Merchant of Venice -831936-3
  Midsummer Night's Dream -831938-X
  Romeo and Juliet -831937-1

• Used

  Hardcover
  1972

  $4.52

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $6.52