Twelfth Night (Oxford School Shakespeare)

by WilliamShakespeare (Author), RomaGill (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $22.11

  The Oxford School Shakespeare series helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in the series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions and activities for work in class, together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays. For this new edition, the notes have been revised so as to make them clearer and more accessible. In addition, the entire text of the book has been redesigned and reset to make it easier to read. Photographs of recent stage productions have also been included.

• Used

  Paperback
  1986

  $16.33

  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

  $11.80

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $7.47

  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.