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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...
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.Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end...
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Experience the delightful comedy of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" in this convenient Pocket Classics edition. Filled with mistaken identities, witty banter, and love triangles, this play is a timeless masterpiece that will entertain and charm readers of all ages...
The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a...
Mistaken Identity-- Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian, are shipwrecked. While coming ashore they are separated and she assumes he has drowned. Upon reaching shore, Viola decides to disguise herself as a young man. Mistaken identity and romance ensue.
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...
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition This edition of Twelfth Night is edited with an introduction by Jonathan Crewe and was recently repackaged...
Because Orsino is hopelessly in love with the aloof Countess Olivia, he doesn't notice Viola, who, disguised as a boy, is in love with him. This comedy's plot bristles with intrigues galore, but all finally ends happily as lovers are paired. Books in this new, illustrated series...
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601-02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola...
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes...
This edition of Twelfth Night is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists...
Shakespeare's gentle melancholy, enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment, has long made Twelfth Night a favourite with Shakespearian audiences.
The complete play in an accessible format, on-page notes, introduction setting the context, timeline, character and theme indexes. Set the scene with perfectly pitched introductions that introduce key contexts, concerns and stylistic features, and examine different performances...