Twelfth Night: Or What You Will

✍ Scribed by William Shakespeare; Elizabeth Story Donno; Penny Gay

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 187
• Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Penny Gay has written a new Introduction to this updated edition of Shakespeare's popular comedy. She stresses the play's theatricality, its elaborate linguistic games and its complex use of Ovidian myths. In addition, Gay analyzes its delicate balancing of romance and realism and exploration of gender, sexuality and identity. First Edition Hb (1985): 0-521-22752-6 First Edition Pb (1985): 0-521-29633-1

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
List of
Illustrations
Preface to First Edition
Preface
Abbreviations and Conventions
1. Shakespeare's plays
2. Editions and general references
Introduction
Date and early performances
The play's sources
Imaginary geography and stage space
Puritans and clowns
Time, chance and the poetry of romance
Myths and metamorphosis
Narcissus
Echo
Twins
Gender, sexuality and the stage
Language
Riddles
Music
Critical fashions
Stage history
'Autumnal' Twelfth Nights
Non-traditional productions
Note on the Text
List
of Characters
TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL
Act 1
1 A room in the duke's palace
2
The sea coast
3 Olivia's house
4
The duke's palace
5 Olivia's house
Act 2
1
The sea coast
2 A street
3
Olivia's house
4 The palace
5 Olivia's garden
Act 3
1 Olivia's garden
2 Olivia's house
3
The street
4 Olivia's garden
Act 4
1 Before Olivia's house
2 Olivia's house
3 Olivia's garden
Act 5
1 Before Olivia's house
Textual Analysis
Reading List