Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The Oxford Shakespeare
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) William Shakespeare , Edited by Roger Warren , Edited by Stanley Wells


Categories: Plays, Playscripts Shakespeare Plays Literary Studies: General Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights Shakespeare Studies & Criticism Classic Books & Novels


Description
Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeares plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled either by disguises or their own natures, it combines lyrical melancholy with broad comedy.

The introduction analyses its many views of love and the juxtaposition of joy and melancholy, while the detailed commentary pays particular attention to its linguistic subtleties.

Music is particularly important in Twelfth Night, and this is the only modern edition to offer material for all the music required in a performance. James Walker has re-edited the existing music from the original sources, and where noe exists has composed settings compatible with the surviving originals.
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Product details

Format Paperback | 256 pages
Dimensions 130 x 200 x 15mm | 272g
Publication date 29 Aug 2008
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Reissue
Illustrations note halftones
ISBN10 0199536090
ISBN13 9780199536092
Bestsellers rank 17,850