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ISBN 9780226307787 (0-226-30778-6, 0226307786)

by Aeschylus

ISBN 0226307786 (0-226-30778-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic

"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation

"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement

"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian

"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal

"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times

"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review

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ISBN 9780226307947 (0-226-30794-8, 0226307948)

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Aeschylus II

by David Grene, Richmond Lattimor

ISBN 0226307948 (0-226-30794-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.

For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.

All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.

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Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

ISBN 9780140714173 (0-14-071417-0, 0140714170)

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As You Like It

by William Shakespeare, Ralph Sargeant

ISBN 0140714170 (0-14-071417-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions and activities for work in class, together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays. Roma Gill, the series editor, has taught Shakespeare at all levels. She has acted in and directed Shakespeare's plays, and has lectured on Shakespeare all over the world. [via]

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ISBN 9780174435860 (0-17-443586-X, 017443586X)

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As You Like It

by Agnes Latham

ISBN 017443586X (0-17-443586-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning

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In addition to the complete text of "As You Like it", this book includes: activities; a synopsis at the beginning of each act; notes opposite the text; photographs showing various productions of the play; and an introduction which places Shakespeare in context. [via]

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ISBN 9780764585777 (0-7645-8577-0, 0764585770)

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Cliffscomplete Twelfth Night

by Chris Stroffolino

ISBN 0764585770 (0-7645-8577-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.

CliffsComplete Twelfth Night involves several separate groups of characters whose stories are flawlessly woven together to produce one of Shakespeare's lightest, most popular, and most musical comedies full of intricate plots and subplots and witty banter that only Shakespeare could write.

Discover what happens to these memorable characters, who ends up with whom and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of Twelfth Night with these additional features:

A summary and insightful commentary for each act
Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare
A look at the historical context and structure of the play
Discussions on the plays symbols and themes
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites

Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!

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ISBN 9780822000945 (0-8220-0094-6, 0822000946)

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Cliffsnotes Twelfth Night

by J. L. Roberts

ISBN 0822000946 (0-8220-0094-6)
Softcover, Cliff Notes

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

In CliffsNotes on Twelfth Night, you follow several separate groups of characters whose stories are flawlessly woven together to produce one of Shakespeare's lightest, most popular, and most musical comedies full of intricate plots and subplots and witty banter that only Shakespeare could write.

Summaries and commentaries take you through Shakespeare's masterpiece, and character analyses of such memorable characters as Viola, Olivia, and Duke Orsino clue you in on their motivations. You also get these additional features:

A section on the life and background of William Shakespeare
A review section that tests your knowledge
A selected bibliography

Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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ISBN 9780140106398 (0-14-010639-1, 0140106391)

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The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

ISBN 0140106391 (0-14-010639-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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Dramatic script relating the interactions of Amanda, her son, and her daughter, Laura and the very important gentleman caller. [via]

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Illustrated Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare, W. Heath Robinson

ISBN 0517101211 (0-517-10121-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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ISBN 9780451526960 (0-451-52696-1, 0451526961)

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Clemen

ISBN 0451526961 (0-451-52696-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Newly revised, this comic play by Shakespeare features a new Introduction by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, an updated bibliography, suggested references, and stage and film history. [via]

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ISBN 9780140443332 (0-14-044333-9, 0140443339)

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The Oresteia

by Aeschylus, Robert Fagles

ISBN 0140443339 (0-14-044333-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to survive, is one of the great foundational texts of Western culture. It begins with Agamemnon, which describes Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War and his murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, continues with her murder by their son Orestes in Libation Bearers, and concludes with Orestes' acquittal at a court founded by Athena in Eumenides. The trilogy thus traces the evolution of justice in human society from blood vengeance to the rule of law, Aeschylus' contribution to a Greek legend steeped in murder, adultery, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and endless intrigue. This new translation is faithful to the strangeness of the original Greek and to its enduring human truth, expressed in language remarkable for poetic intensity, rich metaphorical texture, and a verbal density that modulates at times into powerful simplicity. The translation's precise but complicated rhythms honor the music of the Greek, bringing into unforgettable English the Aeschylean vision of a world fraught with spiritual and political tensions. [via]

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ISBN 9780460875486 (0-460-87548-5, 0460875485)

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The Oresteia

by Michael Ewans

ISBN 0460875485 (0-460-87548-5)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.

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With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest Aeschylus scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, plot summary, selected criticism and chronology of Aeschylus's life and times. [via]

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ISBN 9780374227210 (0-374-22721-7, 0374227217)

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The Oresteia

by Ted Hughes, Aeschylus

ISBN 0374227217 (0-374-22721-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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During the final years of his life, Ted Hughes poured much of his energy into translating the classics. Given the triumph of the Birthday Letters, some readers may regret this canonical moonlighting. Yet it's hard to feel shortchanged by the work Hughes did produce: his version of Ovid was a brilliant blend of Latinate suavity and contemporary grit, and he negotiated the alexandrines of Racine's Phèdre with spectacular ease. Now we have his translation of the Oresteia, which was commissioned by the Royal National Theater in the late 1990s. Has Hughes done right by Aeschylus?

The answer would have to be yes--with a couple of qualifications. Hughes made no secret of the fact that he was after an "acting version" of the trilogy, one that would convey the power of Aeschylus's classic bloodbath to a modern audience. He has therefore taken more liberties with the text than we might expect, chopping and channeling the original to fit his own conception. Perhaps the result is closer to what Robert Lowell called an "imitation"--an attempt to capture the work's spirit without precisely mimicking its form. In any case, this Oresteia succeeds on both counts. The darkness and destructive movement of the original remain intact in the Hughes's free-verse lines:

The men of Troy are a litter of corpses,
Rubbish-heaps of corpses. Troy on its hill
Cascades with blood, as under a downpour
Of bodies from the heavens,
Shattered and entangled with each other
In every passage--mutilations,
Amputations, eviscerations. The women
Are kneeling, shoulders heaving, with eyes hidden,
Over what were yesterday
Husbands, fathers, sons.
They labour at a grief that is already
The first labour of slaves.

Yet Hughes has also left his elemental imprint on the play. Always drawn to violence in his own verse--particularly the impersonal assault and battery of the natural world--he has made his Oresteia more bloody-minded than the original (and that's saying something). There's nothing sensationalistic about this extra quantum of wrack and ruin. It's merely Hughes's personal response to Aeschylus--and a necessary preparation, perhaps, for Athena's clarifying cameo at the end of The Eumenides: "Let your rage pass into understanding / As into the coloured clouds of a sunset, / Promising a fair tomorrow. / Do not let it fall / As a rain of sterility and anguish / On Attica." Her plea for conciliation is as powerful as the horrors that have preceded it, which may (to tread on some rather thin biographical ice) reflect the poet's own final impulses. In any case, this is passionate, memorable, deeply human poetry--i.e., what becomes a classic most. --Anita Urquhart [via]

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ISBN 9780374227234 (0-374-22723-3, 0374227233)

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The Oresteia of Aeschylus

by Aeschylus, Robert Lowell

ISBN 0374227233 (0-374-22723-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux

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Robert Lowell's translation of "The Oreestia" - a beautiful translation. Direct and easily understood by a theatrical audience at first hearing. [via]

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ISBN 9780486292427 (0-486-29242-8, 0486292428)

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The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies

by Aeschylus, E. D. A. Morshead

ISBN 0486292428 (0-486-29242-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Classic trilogy by great tragedian deals with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand in style, rich in diction and dramatic dialogue, the plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods. [via]

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ISBN 9780140440676 (0-14-044067-4, 0140440674)

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The Oresteian Trilogy

by Aeschylus

ISBN 0140440674 (0-14-044067-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Anger still unreconciled
Poisoning a houses life
With darkness, treachery and strife (47

Aeschylus (525c.456 BC) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the heros discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wifes infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestras crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.

Philip Vellacotts verse translation makes this eternal dramatic masterpiece accessible for the modern reader. In his introduction, he examines the historical context and the literary style of the plays.

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ISBN 9780452011663 (0-452-01166-3, 0452011663)

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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: Agamemnon; the Libation Bearers; the Eumenides

by Paul Roche, Aeschylus

ISBN 0452011663 (0-452-01166-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: The Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides

by Aeschylus

ISBN 0451628195 (0-451-62819-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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ISBN 9780573613494 (0-573-61349-4, 0573613494)

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Our Town

ISBN 0573613494 (0-573-61349-4)
Hardcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prizewinning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.

It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play." In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.

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Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

by Thornton Niven Wilder

ISBN 0060512636 (0-06-051263-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prizewinning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.

It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play." In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.

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The Serpent Son: Aeschylus, Oresteia

by Aeschylus, Kenneth McLeish, Frederic Raphael

ISBN 0521220602 (0-521-22060-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press

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The Serpent Son: Aeschylus, Oresteia: ISBN 0521220602 (0-521-22060-2)
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ISBN 9780226307923 (0-226-30792-1, 0226307921)

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Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

by Sophocles, David Greene, Richard Lattimore

ISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic

"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation

"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement

"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian

"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal

"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times

"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review

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ISBN 9780714542348 (0-7145-4234-2, 0714542342)

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Theatre and Its Double

by Antonin Artaud, Victor Corti

ISBN 0714542342 (0-7145-4234-2)
Softcover, Calder Publications Limited

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Since its first publication in 1938, The Theater and Its Double by the French artist and philosopher Antonin Artaud has continued to provoke, inspire, enrage, enliven, challenge, and goad any number of theatrical debates in its call for a "Theater of Cruelty." A trio of theatrical manifestos, the book is an aggressive attack on many of the most treasured beliefs of both theater and Western culture. According to Artaud, the theater's "double" is similar to its Jungian "shadow," the unacknowledged, unconscious element that completes it but is in many ways its opposite. As "culture" inexorably draws the artistic impulse into safe channels, the repressed irrational urges of theater, based on dreams, religion, and emotion, are increasingly necessary to "purge" the sickness of society. Artaud identifies language itself as one of the major cultural culprits, and his attacks on it occasionally makes his text rough going. But his challenge to restore relevance to the heart of the theatrical experience remains fundamental to the vitality of theater, and his insistence on the sensory experience of drama as opposed to the literary (and such innovative ideas as the use of unconventional "found spaces") continues to be the clarion call of the theatrical avant-garde. --John Longenbaugh [via]

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ISBN 9781419191282 (1-4191-9128-4, 1419191284)

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Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1419191284 (1-4191-9128-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]

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Twelfth Night

by Alec McCowen

ISBN 0460875183 (0-460-87518-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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ISBN 9780521296335 (0-521-29633-1, 0521296331)

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Twelfth Night

by Elizabeth S. Donno

ISBN 0521296331 (0-521-29633-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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One of Shakespeare's finest comedies, Twelfth Night was written at the same time as Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida, and whilst it shares their fascination with sex, death and confused identities, its exuberant comedy and linguistic inventiveness rises above the introspection of these plays. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are separated in a storm, which washes them both up at different points on the shores of Illyria. Believing each other to be dead, both attempt to survive by using their wits. Viola cross-dresses and enters the service of the lovesick Orsino, in love with Olivia, an heiress in mourning for the loss of her brother. Orsino's saucy young page Cesario (Viola) soon falls in love with "his" master, who tells "him", "all is semblative a woman's part". Unfortunately, whilst Viola falls in love with Orsino, Olivia falls in love with her alter ego, Cesario, whilst also being pursued at the same time by her pompous servant Malvolio. Olivia's house is also turned upside down by the antics of her drunken uncle, Sir Toby Belch, and the whole crazy situation reaches boiling point when Sebastian reappears.

Despite the madcap plot, Twelfth Night remains one of Shakespeare's most complex and inventive comedies, fascinated with questions of cross-dressing, gender confusion, language and inversion, as well as retaining a darker edge to some of its laughter. --Jerry Brotton [via]

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ISBN 9780743452960 (0-7434-5296-8, 0743452968)

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Twelfth Night : Or What You Will

by Barbara A. Mowat, William Shakespeare, Folger Library, Paul Werstine

ISBN 0743452968 (0-7434-5296-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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In "Twelfth Night," one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies, love, ambition, mistaken identity, and a confusing shipwreck toss a motley crew of characters into a tangle of relationships that becomes hilariously complicated before it finally and wonderfully unfurls by the end of the play. The actual "Twelfth Night" is a night of festivity -- the final night of what used to be the extended period of celebration of the Christmas season -- and a night that marks the boundary between the time for games and the business of the everyday world. As the characters seek to right the wrongs of others and find true love, the play shows us a world that we would all choose to enjoy, if we only could, while illustrating Shakespeare's belief that love can be as delightfully confusing as any illusion, and as full of folly as it is of fun.

THE NEW FOLGER
LIBRARY SHAKESPEARE

Designed to make Shakespeare's great plays available to all readers, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare's language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. Each play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare's language, and by accounts of his life and theater. Each play is followed by an annotated list of further readings and by a "Modern Perspective" written by an expert on that particular play. [via]

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Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

ISBN 9780312202194 (0-312-20219-9, 0312202199)

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Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will

by Bruce R. Smith

ISBN 0312202199 (0-312-20219-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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This edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night reprints the Bevington edition of the play along with 7 sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, maps, woodcuts, descriptions of the popular customs associated with Twelfth Night, anti-theatrical tracts, royal proclamations concerning dress, laws prohibiting certain sexual acts, poems fantasizing those very acts, early modern texts on household economies, passages from Puritan conduct books, excerpts from Ovid and Montaigne, a representative range of early modern opinions about boy actors, and theories of laughter. Besides contextualizing the audience for Shakespeare's play and shedding light on some of his sources, the documents explore the range of sexual desires articulated in the play, competing ideas about music in early modern culture, religious controversy, the regulation of early modern society according to hierarchies, and the controversial place of laughter in early modern culture.

Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an engaging general introduction, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.

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More editions of Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will:

Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will: ISBN 0312202199 (0-312-20219-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: or "What You Will"

by Philip Page, Marilyn Petit

ISBN 0764131478 (0-7641-3147-8)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: or "What You Will": ISBN 0764131478 (0-7641-3147-8)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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