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Twelfth Night: Third Series de William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night: Third Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Autor William Shakespeare Editat de Keir Elam
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mai 2008
Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre of critical debate surrounding gender and sexuality. The Introduction explores the multiple factors that make up the play's rich textual, theatrical, critical and cultural history. Keir Elam surveys the play's production and reception, emphasising the role of the spectator both within the comedy and the playhouse.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781903436998
ISBN-10: 1903436990
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: Illustrations, map, music
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:3rd revised edition
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția The Arden Shakespeare
Seria The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

'Brings together into one volume a wealth of textual, bibliographical, and critical scholarship...emplifies scholarly achievement...'
''The editorial goals of the Arden project are ably met in this edition. Elam's...astounding knowledge of elements of performance make this edition a must-read...A wealth of textual, bibliographical, and critical scholarship; a variety of background materials; helpful images and charts; and information and analysis concerning stage and film performances. The introduction exemplifies scholarly achievement...Magisterial footnotes.'

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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.

Notă biografică

William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613.His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. Until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy in his lifetime. However, in 1623, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that included all but two of his plays. The volume was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Jonson presciently hails Shakespeare in a now-famous quote as "not of an age, but for all time".

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