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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will » Read Now
by William Shakespeare. 194 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...English Classics SHAKSPERES TWELFTH NIGHT OR, WHAT YOU WILL EDITED FOR...Furness Vario rum edition of Twelfth Night , and in Hazlitt Shakespeares...Drama 11 II. Twelfth...
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The Twelfth Night of Shakespeare's Audience » Read Now
by John W. Draper. 280 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...From Vecellios Habiti, 1608 The Twelfth Night of SHAKESPEARES AUDIENCE by...John, and Charles, who studied Twelfth Night with me Preface THE scholarship...now, in like...
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The First Night of Twelfth Night » Read Now
by Leslie Hotson. 256 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...THE FIRST NIGHT OF TWELFTH NIGHT -2- DON VIRGINIO ORSINO, DUCA DI BRACCIANO THE FIRST NIGHT OF TWELFTH NIGHT LESLIE HOTSON THE MACMILLAN...PALACE ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF...
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Shakespeare the Playwright: A Companion to the Complete Tragedies, Histories, Comedies, and Romances ("Twelfth Night, or What You Will" begins on p. 665) » Read Now
by Victor L. Cahn. 865 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

When Victor Cahn's Shakespeare the Playwright was issued in 1991, it was "highly recommended for any general public library and for academic collections at all undergraduate levels" (Choice) and viewed as "a useful guide for the general reader, as well as high school and undergraduate students"...
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When Victor Cahn's Shakespeare the Playwright was issued in 1991, it was "highly recommended for any general public library and for academic collections at all undergraduate levels" (Choice) and viewed as "a useful guide for the general reader, as well as high school and undergraduate students" Library Journal. Now Professor Cahn has revised his introduction to make the context of Shakespeare's plays more meaningful to the beginning researcher and to show how the plays have been performed from the 16th century onward. In addition, the bibliographies for each of the 37 plays have been updated to include the best new research. These updates and revisions will enhance the use of this guide for the general reader, student, and researcher, from high school onward.
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Shakespeare and the Question of Theory (Chap. 3 "Shakespeare's Poetical Character in Twelfth Night") » Read Now
by Geoffrey Hartman, Patricia Parker. 338 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Shakespeare and the Poets' War (Chap. 7 "Shakespeare at the Fountain of Self-Love: Twelfth Night at the Center of the Poets' War") » Read Now
by James P. Bednarz. 334 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters" since Harbage's Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions...
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In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters" since Harbage's Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, revealing a new vision of Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. Rather than viewing Shakespeare as an anonymous creator, Shakespeare and the Poets' War re-creates the contentious entertainment industry that fostered his genius when he first began to write at the Globe in 1599. Bednarz redraws the Poets' War as a debate on the social function of drama and the status of the dramatist that involved not only Shakespeare and Jonson but also the lesser known John Marston and Thomas Dekker. He shows how this controversy, triggered by Jonson's bold new dramatic experiments, directly influenced the writing of As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet, gave rise to the first modern drama criticism in English, and shaped the way we still perceive Shakespeare today.
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As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women (Chap. 1 "Twelfth Night: Desire and Its Discontents") » Read Now
by Penny Gay. 210 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies.Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affects the production to the comedies, and...
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As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies.Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affects the production to the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on the stage. Penny Gay takes a fascinating look at the way Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Measure for Measure have been staged over the last half a century, when perceptions of gender roles have undergone massive changes. She also interrogates, rigorously but thoughtfully, the relationship between a male theatrical establishment and a burgeoning feminist approach to performance.As illuminating for practitioners as it will be enjoyable and useful for students, As She Likes It will be critical reading for anyone interested in women's experience of theatre.
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Shakespeare without Women: Representing Gender and Race on the Renaissance Stage (Chap. 1 "'And All Is Semblative a Woman's Part': Body Politics and Twelfth Night") » Read Now
by Dympna Callanghan. 222 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays. In this exhilarating and provocative book, Dympna Callaghan focuses on the implications of absence and exclusion in several of...
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Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays. In this exhilarating and provocative book, Dympna Callaghan focuses on the implications of absence and exclusion in several of Shakespeare's works: * the exclusion of the female body from Twelfth Night * the impersonation of the female voice in the original performances of the plays * racial impersonation in Othello * echoes of removal of the Gaelic Irish in The Tempest * the absence of women on stage and in public life as shown in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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The Serious Comedy of Twelfth Night: Dark Didacticism in Illyria, in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature » Read Now
by Lisa Marciano. 16 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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"Slander in an Allow'd Fool": Twelfth Night's Crisis of the Aristocracy, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 » Read Now
by Karin S. Coddon. 17 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...by Karin S. Coddon In Twelfth Night demarcations between male and...problem of closure also aligns Twelfth Night with Hamlet and King Lear, plays...not entirely effaced.(3)...
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On Not Being Deceived: Rhetoric and the Body in Twelfth Night, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now
by Lorna Hutson. 35 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Deceived: Rhetoric and the Body in Twelfth Night Lorna Hutson Elder Loveless...focus my argument on Shakespeare Twelfth Night, a play which, for all the curiously...current...
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Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays (Chap. 2 "Embodiment: The Sonnets, Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night") » Read Now
by David Schalkwyk. 262 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This analysis of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays asserts that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive. It discusses the 1609 quarto of sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays. David Schalkwyk addresses embodiment and...
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This analysis of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays asserts that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive. It discusses the 1609 quarto of sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays. David Schalkwyk addresses embodiment and silencing, interiority and theatricality, inequalities of power, status, gender and desire in the published poems, on the stage and in the context of the early modern period.
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Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (Chap. 3 "Twelfth Night: Suitable Suits and the Cognitive Space Between") » Read Now
by Mary Thomas Crane. 265 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

""Shakespeare's Brain" will inevitably be described as a 'cognitive' analysis because it pays attention to cognitive aspects of meaning, but it is no less 'historical, ' 'theoretical, ' and 'nterpretive'. The book gives rich treatments of the historical aspects of the plays and their production, the...
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""Shakespeare's Brain" will inevitably be described as a 'cognitive' analysis because it pays attention to cognitive aspects of meaning, but it is no less 'historical, ' 'theoretical, ' and 'nterpretive'. The book gives rich treatments of the historical aspects of the plays and their production, the history of criticism, and literary theory. To this richness it adds the embodied mind of the writer writing, and the ways in which the plays investigate what is involved in conceiving of oneself as an embodied mind. Shakespeare's Brain offers old wine (Shakespeare) in new bottles (cognitive science), giving us not only a picture of the future of cognitive literary study but also some valuable new interpretations of the plays."--Mark Turner, University of Maryland
"Mary Thomas Crane lays out with easy authority and admirable lucidity what criticism might hope to gain from considering the insights of cognitive neuroscience. Taking on a wide range of experimental and theoretical cognitive science as well as the beginnings of its absorption into historical and literary studies, she proves to be a gifted explainer. Moreover, her 'adjustment' of Saussure, Lacan, and Derrida has an unassuming brilliance, bold but modestly teacherly, controversial without being controversialist."--James Richardson, Princeton University
"The implications of Mary Thomas Crane's approach are manifold and momentous, and she presents these in an introduction as striking for its lucidity as for its significance. Crane's scholarship is rich and extensive, and the book is beautifully written."--Judith H. Anderson, Indiana University
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Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture (Chap. 8 "Interculturalism in Contemporary Mise en Scene: The Image of India in the Mahabharata, The Indiade, Twelfth Night, and Faust") » Read Now
by Patrice Pavis. 219 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Design and Closure in Shakespeare's Major Plays: The Nature of Recapitulation ("Twelfth Night" begins on p. 73) » Read Now
by William B. Bache. 397 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England (Chap. 7 "Female Alliance and the Construction of Homoeroticism in As You Like It and Twelfth Night") » Read Now
by Susan Frye, Karen Robertson. 350 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The inclusions range over a variety of communities--cities, households, and court--and consider classes of women from vagabonds to queens to explore the traces of women's connections...
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This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The inclusions range over a variety of communities--cities, households, and court--and consider classes of women from vagabonds to queens to explore the traces of women's connections. These clear and lively interdisciplinary essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studies of race in the early modern period.
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