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Twelfth Night de William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night: Play on Shakespeare

Autor William Shakespeare Traducere de Alison Carey
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 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: 9780866988278
ISBN-10: 0866988270
Pagini: 108
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: ACMRS Press
Colecția ACMRS Press
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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.

Descriere scurtă

Alison Carey brings the confusion and mischief of Shakespeare’s comedy into the twenty-first century. 
 
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night centers on power and love. One of the most perennially produced of Shakespeare’s comedies, it talks about shipwrecked twins, gender-bending romance, and a bumper crop of fools, from the wise to the ridiculous. Modernizing the language of the play, Alison Carey’s translation revives the joy of this comedy, taking the archaic humor and renewing it for a contemporary audience. 
 
This translation of Twelfth Night was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of “The Bard” in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print—a new First Folio for a new era.

Notă biografică

Alison Carey is a playwright, environmental activist, and cofounder of the community-based Cornerstone Theater Company. She directs Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s American Revolutions project to commission new plays about moments of change in US history, including Lynn Nottage’s Sweat and Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way.

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.

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.

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.

“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.