Twelfth Night: Folger Shakespeare Library
Autor William Shakespeare Editat de Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine Ph.D.en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 aug 2004
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: 9780743482776
ISBN-10: 0743482778
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 106 x 171 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster
Seria Folger Shakespeare Library
ISBN-10: 0743482778
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 106 x 171 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster
Seria Folger Shakespeare Library
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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.
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William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the incredible comedy about unrequited love, both hilarious and heartbreaking, now presented by the Folger Shakespeare Library with valuable new tools for educators and dynamic new covers.
The authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Twelfth Night, the hilarious and heartbreaking comedy of unrequited love, featuring Shakespeare’s complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship to help students, teachers, and general readers read Shakespeare with confidence.
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works and an internationally recognized center for Shakespeare scholarship, performance, and education. Drawing on generations of scholarly expertise, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions combine the complete original texts of Shakespeare’s plays with accessible explanatory notes, historical context, and expert commentary, making them trusted resources for classroom study, theatrical performance, and personal reading.
Read Shakespeare’s original words with the guidance to understand them. Unlike simplified retellings or modern-English translations, the Folger edition preserves Shakespeare’s language while providing the tools readers need to navigate unfamiliar vocabulary, appreciate his wit and wordplay, follow complex relationships, and explore the deeper meanings of each play. With explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and insightful scholarship, this annotated edition is an excellent choice for high school and college students, AP English Literature courses, teachers, actors, book clubs, and anyone discovering Shakespeare for the first time.
One of Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic comedies, Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a delightful exploration of love, mistaken identity, disguise, and desire. After a shipwreck separates twins Viola and Sebastian, Viola disguises herself as a young man named Cesario and enters the service of Duke Orsino. When Orsino sends Cesario to court the beautiful Olivia, Olivia falls in love with the disguised Viola, who has secretly fallen for Orsino herself. Meanwhile, the self-important Malvolio becomes the victim of an elaborate practical joke, adding another layer of mischief to a world where appearances are deceiving and love rarely follows a predictable path.
Blending romance, comedy, music, and moments of unexpected melancholy, Twelfth Night explores timeless questions of identity, gender, friendship, longing, and the unpredictable nature of love. From its celebrated opening line, “If music be the food of love, play on,” to its unforgettable characters and clever reversals, the play remains a favorite of readers, teachers, and theater audiences.
This Folger Shakespeare Library edition includes:
-Shakespeare’s complete original text, carefully edited from the best early printed version of the play
-Facing-page explanatory notes that clarify difficult words, historical references, expressions, and Shakespearean wordplay
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries to help readers follow the action, understand character relationships, and review important events
-An introduction to Shakespeare’s language that makes the original text more accessible to students and first-time readers
-A guide to famous lines and phrases, illuminating the play’s most memorable quotations
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar offering a modern perspective on the play and its enduring significance
-Images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's extraordinary collections of rare books and historical materials
-An annotated guide to further reading for students, teachers, and readers seeking deeper understanding
Edited by distinguished Shakespeare scholars Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, this edition brings together authoritative textual scholarship and practical reading support in a single accessible volume.
Whether you’re studying Twelfth Night for an English class, teaching Shakespeare, preparing for a theatrical production, or reading one of the world’s great comedies for pleasure, the Folger Shakespeare Library edition offers an ideal combination of original text, expert guidance, and literary discovery.
Experience Shakespeare as he wrote it and understand why his words continue to captivate readers and audiences more than four centuries later.
The authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Twelfth Night, the hilarious and heartbreaking comedy of unrequited love, featuring Shakespeare’s complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship to help students, teachers, and general readers read Shakespeare with confidence.
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works and an internationally recognized center for Shakespeare scholarship, performance, and education. Drawing on generations of scholarly expertise, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions combine the complete original texts of Shakespeare’s plays with accessible explanatory notes, historical context, and expert commentary, making them trusted resources for classroom study, theatrical performance, and personal reading.
Read Shakespeare’s original words with the guidance to understand them. Unlike simplified retellings or modern-English translations, the Folger edition preserves Shakespeare’s language while providing the tools readers need to navigate unfamiliar vocabulary, appreciate his wit and wordplay, follow complex relationships, and explore the deeper meanings of each play. With explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and insightful scholarship, this annotated edition is an excellent choice for high school and college students, AP English Literature courses, teachers, actors, book clubs, and anyone discovering Shakespeare for the first time.
One of Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic comedies, Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a delightful exploration of love, mistaken identity, disguise, and desire. After a shipwreck separates twins Viola and Sebastian, Viola disguises herself as a young man named Cesario and enters the service of Duke Orsino. When Orsino sends Cesario to court the beautiful Olivia, Olivia falls in love with the disguised Viola, who has secretly fallen for Orsino herself. Meanwhile, the self-important Malvolio becomes the victim of an elaborate practical joke, adding another layer of mischief to a world where appearances are deceiving and love rarely follows a predictable path.
Blending romance, comedy, music, and moments of unexpected melancholy, Twelfth Night explores timeless questions of identity, gender, friendship, longing, and the unpredictable nature of love. From its celebrated opening line, “If music be the food of love, play on,” to its unforgettable characters and clever reversals, the play remains a favorite of readers, teachers, and theater audiences.
This Folger Shakespeare Library edition includes:
-Shakespeare’s complete original text, carefully edited from the best early printed version of the play
-Facing-page explanatory notes that clarify difficult words, historical references, expressions, and Shakespearean wordplay
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries to help readers follow the action, understand character relationships, and review important events
-An introduction to Shakespeare’s language that makes the original text more accessible to students and first-time readers
-A guide to famous lines and phrases, illuminating the play’s most memorable quotations
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar offering a modern perspective on the play and its enduring significance
-Images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's extraordinary collections of rare books and historical materials
-An annotated guide to further reading for students, teachers, and readers seeking deeper understanding
Edited by distinguished Shakespeare scholars Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, this edition brings together authoritative textual scholarship and practical reading support in a single accessible volume.
Whether you’re studying Twelfth Night for an English class, teaching Shakespeare, preparing for a theatrical production, or reading one of the world’s great comedies for pleasure, the Folger Shakespeare Library edition offers an ideal combination of original text, expert guidance, and literary discovery.
Experience Shakespeare as he wrote it and understand why his words continue to captivate readers and audiences more than four centuries later.
Notă biografică
William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.
Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing.
Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at King’s University College at Western University. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.
Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing.
Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at King’s University College at Western University. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.
Descriere
The Folger Library offers the definitive, updated edition of Shakespeare’s work, with newly edited text, explanatory notes, scene summaries, and more.
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.
Recenzii
Gayle Gaskill offers appropriate tribute to G.L. Kittredge by updating his classic edition with a mastery, thoroughness, and verve worthy of the original. This excellent edition is marked by impeccable scholarship that everywhere displays careful attention to detail and keen sensitivity to the needs of modern readers.
—John W. Mahon, Co-Editor, The Shakespeare Newsletter, and Professor of English, Iona College.
—John W. Mahon, Co-Editor, The Shakespeare Newsletter, and Professor of English, Iona College.
Even as the New Kittredge Shakespeare series glances back to George Lyman Kittredge's student editions of the plays, it is very much of our current moment: the slim editions are targeted largely at high school and first-year college students who are more versed in visual than in print culture. Not only are the texts of the plays accompanied by photographs or stills from various stage and cinema performances: the editorial contributions are performance-oriented, offering surveys of contemporary film interpretations, essays on the plays as performance pieces, and an annotated filmography. Traditional editorial issues (competing versions of the text, cruxes, editorial emendation history) are for the most part excluded; the editions focus instead on clarifying the text with an eye to performing it. There is no disputing the pedagogic usefulness of the New Kittredge Shakespeare's performance-oriented approach. At times, however, it can run the risk of treating textual issues as impediments, rather than partners, to issues of performance. This is particularly the case with a textually vexed play such as Pericles: Prince of Tyre. In the introduction to the latter, Jeffrey Kahan notes the frequent unintelligibility of the play as originally published: "the chances of a reconstructed text matching what Shakespeare actually wrote are about 'nil'" (p. xiii) But his solution — to use a "traditional text" rather than one corrected as are the Oxford and Norton Pericles — obscures how this "traditional text," including its act and scene division, is itself a palimpsest produced through three centuries of editorial intervention. Nevertheless, the series does a service to its target audience with its emphasis on performance and dramaturgy. Kahan's own essay about his experiences as dramaturge for a college production of Pericles is very good indeed, particularly on the play's inability to purge the trace of incestuous desire that Pericles first encounters in Antioch. Other plays' cinematic histories: Annalisa Castaldo's edition of Henry V contrasts Laurence Oliver's and Branagh's film productions; Samuel Crowl's and James Wells's edition of (respectively) I and 2 Henry IV concentrate on Welle's Chimes at Midnight and Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho; Patricia Lennox's edition of As You Like It offers an overview of four Hollywood and British film adaptations; and John R. Ford's edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream provides a spirited survey of the play's rich film history.
The differences between, and comparative merits of, various editorial series are suggested by the three editions of The Taming of the Shrew published this year. Laury Magnus's New Kittredge Shakespeare edition is, like the other New Kittredge volumes, a workable text for high school and first year college students interested in film and theater. The introduction elaborates on one theme — Elizabethan constructions of gender — and offers a very broad performance history, focusing on Sam Taylor's and Zeffirelli's film versions as well as adaptations such as Kiss Me Kate and Ten Things I Hate About You (accompanied by a still of ten hearthtrobs Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles). The volume is determined to eradicate any confusion that a first time reader of the play might experience: the dramatis personae page explains that "Bianca Minola" is "younger daughter to Baptista, wooed by Lucentio-in-disguise (as Cambio) and then wife to him, also wooed by the elderly Gremio and Hortensio-in-disguise (as Licio)" (p.1). Other editorial notes, based on Kittredge's own, are confined mostly to explaining individual words and phrases: additional footnotes discuss interpretive choices made by film and stage productions. Throughout, the editorial emphasis is on the play less as text than as performance piece, culminating in fifteen largely performance-oriented "study questions" on topics such as disguise, misogyny, and violence.
Studies in English Literature, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Volume 51, Spring 2011, Number 2, pages 497-499.
The differences between, and comparative merits of, various editorial series are suggested by the three editions of The Taming of the Shrew published this year. Laury Magnus's New Kittredge Shakespeare edition is, like the other New Kittredge volumes, a workable text for high school and first year college students interested in film and theater. The introduction elaborates on one theme — Elizabethan constructions of gender — and offers a very broad performance history, focusing on Sam Taylor's and Zeffirelli's film versions as well as adaptations such as Kiss Me Kate and Ten Things I Hate About You (accompanied by a still of ten hearthtrobs Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles). The volume is determined to eradicate any confusion that a first time reader of the play might experience: the dramatis personae page explains that "Bianca Minola" is "younger daughter to Baptista, wooed by Lucentio-in-disguise (as Cambio) and then wife to him, also wooed by the elderly Gremio and Hortensio-in-disguise (as Licio)" (p.1). Other editorial notes, based on Kittredge's own, are confined mostly to explaining individual words and phrases: additional footnotes discuss interpretive choices made by film and stage productions. Throughout, the editorial emphasis is on the play less as text than as performance piece, culminating in fifteen largely performance-oriented "study questions" on topics such as disguise, misogyny, and violence.
Studies in English Literature, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Volume 51, Spring 2011, Number 2, pages 497-499.
“Gayle Gaskill offers appropriate tribute to G.L. Kittredge by updating his classic tradition with a mastery, thoroughness, and verve worthy of the original. This excellent edition is marked by impeccable scholarship that everywhere displays careful attention to detail and keen sensitivity to the needs of modern readers.” —John W. Mahon, Co-Editor, The Shakespearean Newsletter and Professor of English, Iona College
George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of this eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments—all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when some modernization seems necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.
These plays are being made available by Focus Publishing with the permission of the Kittredge heirs.
Gayle Gaskill is professor of English at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has contributed articles to Who Hears in Shakespeare?: Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen (Fairleigh Dickinson 2012), The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays (Routledge 2002), The Shakespeare Newsletter, and the Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare. Her reviews have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly and Cahiers Élisabéthains.
George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of this eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments—all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when some modernization seems necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.
These plays are being made available by Focus Publishing with the permission of the Kittredge heirs.
Gayle Gaskill is professor of English at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has contributed articles to Who Hears in Shakespeare?: Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen (Fairleigh Dickinson 2012), The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays (Routledge 2002), The Shakespeare Newsletter, and the Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare. Her reviews have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly and Cahiers Élisabéthains.
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
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
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