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Twelfth Night de William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

Autor William Shakespeare Ilustrat de Eric Ravilious Introducere de Alan Powers
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en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mai 2024

SERIA Collins Classroom Classics aduce o perspectivă proaspătă asupra textelor canonice, iar acest volum, Twelfth Night, nu face excepție. Observăm cum această ediție reușește să transforme o piesă clasică de secol XVII într-un instrument de învățare adaptat nevoilor elevilor și studenților de astăzi. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit modul în care textul original al lui William Shakespeare este încadrat de un aparat critic solid, care nu se rezumă doar la glosar, ci plonjează adânc în rădăcinile culturale ale epocii.

Structura volumului este una progresivă: după o introducere care stabilește coordonatele istorice, piesa este prezentată integral, fiind urmată de o secțiune fascinantă de „Contexte Culturale”. Aici, cititorii pot explora eseuri despre rolul muzicii în perioada elisabetană sau despre semnificația sărbătorii de a „Douăsprezecea Noapte”. Considerăm că această abordare este esențială pentru tinerii cititori care doresc să înțeleagă nu doar ce se întâmplă în comedie, ci și de ce anumite teme, precum travestiul sau identitatea fluidă, erau atât de relevante.

Comparativ cu alte lucrări ale autorului, cum ar fi The Tempest sau Much Ado About Nothing, această operă se distinge prin echilibrul fin între melancolie și farsă. Părinții care au citit cu plăcere Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will (ediția cu note de la World's Leading Center) vor aprecia și această versiune pentru modul în care clarifică limbajul arhaic prin note de subsol accesibile, fără a întrerupe ritmul lecturii. Este o resursă valoroasă care demonstrează că William Shakespeare rămâne actual prin explorarea onestă a naturii umane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781851246243
ISBN-10: 185124624X
Pagini: 96
Ilustrații: 79 halftones
Dimensiuni: 194 x 267 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Colecția Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție părinților care doresc să le ofere adolescenților o introducere prietenoasă în literatura engleză clasică. Dincolo de textul piesei, cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a istoriei și culturii britanice prin eseurile incluse. Este o alegere excelentă pentru pregătirea examenelor sau pentru dezvoltarea unui vocabular elevat în limba engleză, transformând o lectură școlară într-o experiență de descoperire culturală.

Despre autor

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), supranumit „Bardul din Avon”, este considerat cel mai mare scriitor de limbă engleză și cel mai influent dramaturg al lumii. Opera sa vastă cuprinde 38 de piese de teatru și 154 de sonete, fiind tradusă în toate limbile moderne majore. Cariera sa de succes în Londra, ca actor și acționar al companiei Lord Chamberlain's Men, i-a permis să exploreze o gamă largă de genuri, de la comedii rafinate la tragedii profunde precum Hamlet sau Macbeth. Twelfth Night aparține perioadei sale de maturitate artistică în genul comediei, reflectând geniul său în crearea unor personaje complexe și a unor intrigi pline de spirit.

Descriere scurtă

Artist Eric Ravilious’s stunning illustrative interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of artist Eric Ravilious’s finest illustrated works, William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. This edition was first published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1932 in a limited print run and is now considered a masterpiece of typography and illustration.
Ravilious was fascinated with Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry and drama, both as literature and as visual inspiration. His playful wooden engravings depict characters such as Viola, Sebastian, Sir Toby Belch, and Malvolio in period costumes on imaginary stages or in garden scenes. In addition, decorative borders and vignettes enliven the pages.
In his introduction, Alan Powers tells the story of how the publication of this edition was very nearly derailed by the onset of the economic Depression and how the resourcefulness and determination of the artist, publisher, and printer brought about this extraordinary version of Shakespeare’s beloved comedy.

Notă biografică

Eric Ravilious (1903–42) was a British painter, book illustrator, and designer. Alan Powers has published widely on twentieth-century design and architecture. He is the author of Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities and Eric Ravilious, Artist and Designer.

Recenzii

"Among the various fine achievements of Eric Ravilious's war-abbreviated life (1903-42), one of the finest was his set of engravings for the edition of Twelfth Night published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1932. You'll find copies of this notable productions of the private press movement offered by rare book dealers for large sums. Fortunately, a facsimile Twelfth Night has just been published. It comes with an introduction by Alan Powers, tracing Ravilious's development as an engraver and the peril in which Robert Gibbing's press found itself as this project got under way."

"In this beautifully produced edition, the play’s bittersweet mood is perfectly expressed in the texture and form of Ravilious’s wood engravings. His colored images bring just the right tinge of melancholy to the comedy."

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments, all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. These new editions have specific emphasis on the performance histories of the plays (on stage and screen).
Features of each edition include:
  • The original introduction to the Kittredge Edition
  • Editor’s Introduction to the Focus Edition. An overview on major themes of the plays, and sections on the play’s performance history on stage and screen.
  • Explanatory Notes. The explanatory notes either expand on Kittredge’s superb glosses, or, in the case of plays for which he did not write notes, give the needed explanations for Shakespeare’s sometimes demanding language.
  • Performance notes. These appear separately and immediately below the textual footnotes and include discussions of noteworthy stagings of the plays, issues of interpretation, and film and stage choices.
  • How to read the play as Performance Section. A discussion of the written play vs. the play as performed and the various ways in which Shakespeare’s words allow the reader to envision the work "off the page."
  • Comprehensive Timeline. Covering major historical events (with brief annotations) as well as relevant details from Shakespeare’s life. Some of the Chronologies include time chronologies within the plays.
  • Topics for Discussion and Further Study Section. Critical Issues: Dealing with the text in a larger context and considerations of character, genre, language, and interpretative problems. Performance Issues: Problems and intricacies of staging the play connected to chief issues discussed in the Focus Editions’ Introduction.
  • Select Bibliography & Filmography
  • Film stills from major productions, for comparison and scene study.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Twelfth Night has seldom been off the stage since Shakespeare's day. It has been performed for its romantic high comedy and its boisterous low comedy; with an emphasis on farce or on autumnal melancholy; as straightforward celebration of heterosexual love and marriage or as exploration of the complexity of gender. David Carnegie and Mark Houlahan's introduction to the play provides a lively discussion of the play's performance history, and encourages readers to think about stagecraft and the play as a performance text, while the historical appendices provide materials that illuminate different thematic elements of the play. Extended notes interleaved throughout the play present relevant illustrations and expand on mythological, historical, and religious references in the play. The accompanying online text will offer additional commentary on staging alternatives and more extensive visual materials.

Cuprins

About the Series

About This Volume

List of Illustrations

Introduction

PART ONE:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL
EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON


PART TWO:
Cultural Contexts

1. Romance
Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, From Le Prince d'Amour, or The Prince of Love
Place
George Sandys, From A Relation of a Journey Begun Anno Domini 1610
Roger Ascham, From The Schoolmaster
Barnaby Rich, From Barnaby Rich His Farewell to the Military Profession
Time
From The Book of Common Prayer
Henry Bourne, From Antiquitates Vulgares, or the Antiquities of the Common People

2. Music
 Musical Resources
Aristotle (Attributed), From The Problems of Aristotle, with Other Philosophers and Physicians
Anthony Gibson, From A Woman's Worth Defended Against All the Men in the World
Mind and Bodies
Ovid, from Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized, and Represented in Figures
Plutarch, From Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together
John Case (Attributed), From The Praise of Music
Thomas Wright, From The Passions of the Mind in General

3. Sexuality
 Will and Passion
William Shakespeare, from Shake-spear's Sonnets, Never Before Imprinted
Heart, Soul, and Genitalia
Thomas Wright, From The Passions of the Mind in General
Helkiah Crooke, From Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man
Ovid, From The Heroical Epistles of Publius Ovidius Naso in English Verse
John Donne, Sappho to Philaenis
John Lyly, From Gallathea
From The Whole Volume of Statutes at Large and Sir Edward Coke, From The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England
Michel de Montaigne, From Essays
Francis Beaumont, from Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

4. Clothing and Disguise
 From Of Excess of Apparel
Edward Alleyn and Philip Henslowe, An Inventory of Costumes
Social Rank
A Proclamation Enforcing Statutes and Proclamations of Apparel,
Robert Greene, from A Quip for an Upstart Courtier
I. T. (or J. T.), from The Haven of Pleasure Containing a Direction How to Live Well
Gender
Sir Philip Sidney, from Arcadia
From Hic Mulier, or The Man-Woman and From Haec-Vir, or The Womanish Man
Eight Accounts of Boy Actors

5. Household Economies
 Decorum
Stephano Guazzo, From Civil Conversation
William Vaughan, From The Golden Grove Moralized in Three Books
Traditional Hospitality
Ben Jonson, To Penshurst
From Grievous Groans for the Poor
Donald Lupton, From London and the Country Cardonadoed and Quartered into Several Characters
Puritan Ideals
I. T. (or J. T.), From The Haven of Pleasure, Containing a Free Man's Felicity and a True Direction How to Live Well
William Perkins, From Christian Economy
Alternative Households
William Prynne, from Histrio-Mastix, The Players' Scourge or Actors' Tragedy
Augustine Phillips, Last Will and Testament

6. Puritan Probity
 Sir Thomas Overbury, From A Wife . . . Whereunto Are Added Many Witty Characters
Religion
William Bradshaw, from English Puritanism
Richard Bancroft, from A Survey of the Pretended Holy Discipline
Economics
Robert Cleaver and John Dod, From A Godly Form of Household Government
The Politics of Mirth
Phillip Stubbes, from The Anatomy of Abuses in Ailgna
James I and Charles I. The King's Majesty's Declaration to His Subjects Concerning Lawful Sports to be Used

7. Clowning and Laughter
 Quintilian, from Institutio Oratoria
Robert Armin's Career
Robert Armin, From Fool upon Fool, or Six Sorts of Sots
Robert Armin, From Quips upon Questions, or A Clown's Conceit on Occasion Offered
Theories of Laughter
Plato, from Philebus
Plato, from Republic
Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics
Giovanni della Casa, From Galateo . . . or rather A Treatise of the Manners and Behaviors It Behooveth a Man to Use and Eschew
Quintilian, from Institutio Oratoria
Laurent Joubert, From Treatise on Laughter
Sir Philip Sidney, From A Defense of Poesy

Bibliography

Index