Twelfth Night: Critical Essays

by Stanley Wells (Editor)

Overview

Originally published in 1986. Among the most frequently performed and high admired of Shakespeare’s plays, Twelfth Night is examined here in this collection of writings from well-known essayists and scholars. The chapters present to the modern reader discussions of the play to enhance understanding and study of both the text and performances. Opening essays address individual characters; then some accounts of its potential and theatrical reviews are included; finally followed by critical studies looking at various parts and themes. The editor’s introduction explains the usefulness of each chapter and gives an overview of the selection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317532316
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/10/2015
Series:	Shakespearean Criticism
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	330
File size:	541 KB

About the Author

Stanley Wells

Table of Contents

General Editor’s Preface, Joseph Price; Introduction, Stanley Wells; Chapter 1 The Illyrians, J. B. Priestley; Chapter 2 Feste the Jester, A. C. Bradley; Chapter 3 Directions for Twelfth Night, John Russell Brown; Chapter 4 Twelfth Night, Arthur Colby Sprague; Chapter 5 On Some of the Old Actors, Charles Lamb; Chapter 6 Samuel Phelps as Malvolio (1857), Henry Morley; Chapter 7 Beerbohm Tree’s Twelfth Night, Max Beerbohm; Chapter 8 Twelfth Night at the Vieux Colombier (1921), Harley Granville Barker; Chapter 9 Twelfth Night at the Old Vic (1933), Virginia Woolf; Chapter 10 Peter Hall’s Production of Twelfth Night (1958), Roy Walker; Chapter 11 Illyria for Whitehall, Leslie Hotson; Chapter 12 Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night, C. L. Barber; Chapter 13 The Fruits of the Sport, Bertrand Evans; Chapter 14 The Underplot of Twelfth Night, Harry Levin; Chapter 15 Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Harold Jenkins; Chapter 16 The Design of Twelfth Night, L. G. Salingar; Chapter 17 Twelfth Night, A.S. Leggatt; Chapter 18 Plays and Playing in “Twelfth Night”, Karen Greif; Chapter 19 The Dramaturgy of the Ending of Twelfth Night, Jörg Hasler; Chapter 20 Shakespeare’s Sense of an Ending in Twelfth Night, Anne Barton;