Twelfth Night
eBook - ePub

Twelfth Night

New Critical Essays

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Twelfth Night

New Critical Essays

About this book

This volume in the Shakespeare Criticism series offers a range of approaches to Twelfth Night, including its critical reception, performance history, and relation to early modern culture.

James Schiffer's extensive introduction surveys the play's critical reception and performance history, while individual essays explore a variety of topics relevant to a full appreciation of the play: early modern notions of love, friendship, sexuality, madness, festive ritual, exoticism, social mobility, and detection. The contributors approach these topics from a variety of perspectives, such as new critical, new historicist, cultural materialist, feminist and queer theory, and performance criticism, occasionally combining several approaches within a single essay.

The new essays from leading figures in the field explore and extend the key debates surrounding Twelfth Night, creating the ideal book for readers approaching this text for the first time or wishing to further their knowledge of this stimulating, much loved play.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781135777753
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Notes on contributors
  10. General Editor’s introduction
  11. 1 Introduction Taking the long view: Twelfth Night criticism and performance
  12. 2 Twelfth Night: editing puzzles and eunuchs of all kinds
  13. 3 “His fancy’s queen”: sensing sexual strangeness in Twelfth Night
  14. 4 Music, food, and love in the affective landscapes of Twelfth Night
  15. 5 “The marriage of true minds”: amity, twinning, and comic closure in Twelfth Night
  16. 6 Masculine plots in Twelfth Night
  17. 7 Post-communist nights: Shakespeare, essential masculinity, and Western citizenship
  18. 8 Beyond the “lyric” in Illyricum: some early modern backgrounds to Twelfth Night
  19. 9 Domesticating strangeness in Twelfth Night
  20. 10 Staging the exotic in Twelfth Night
  21. 11 “The text remains for another attempt”: Twelfth Night, or What You Will on the German stage
  22. 12 “What he wills”: early modern rings and vows in Twelfth Night
  23. 13 Madness and social mobility in Twelfth Night
  24. 14 Twelfth Night and the New Orleans Twelfth Night Revelers
  25. 15 Whodunit? Plot, plotting, and detection in Twelfth Night
  26. Index