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Twelfth Night (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare, Claire McEachern (Editor), David Scott Kastan (Introduction)

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  • Pub. Date: January 2007
  • 328pp

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    • Pub. Date: January 2007
    • Publisher: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: Paperback, 328pp

    Synopsis

    Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote.

    Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare includes:

    • New Scholarship – Premiere scholars introduce each play with contemporary scholarship. An essay on editing the text provides an in-depth look at the quartos and folios used in the edition.
    • Contextualizing Essays – Essays on Shakespeare’s England, language, and life, along with essays on performing Shakespeare and significant performances frame the play in both historical and theatrical context for readers. A look at the lasting influence of the play on music, art, film, and dance creates an interdisciplinary framework with which to approach the play.
    • Better Notes – Through one-word margin definitions, facing-page glosses, and longer end notes after the play, our innovative approach to notes pulls readers away from the text fewer times while providing them with more information and comprehensive analysis.
    • Further Reading – An annotated bibliography of titles, hand-selected by the introduction author, takes readers beyond the edition for further reading.

    Widely regarded as Shakespeare’s most perfect comedy, Twelfth Night follows the twisting paths that lead to love. Theeditor, Claire McEachern, provides an illuminating context for the play, showing how England’s struggle to define a national religious identity underlies many of the play’s conflicts.

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    Tragically overshadowedby Benedick_101

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    May 20, 2009: Of all of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing get all the credit. They are both great plays, but Twelfth Night takes the cake!! It's a brilliant plot with the perfect amount of confusion. And the ending isn't obvious!! In most plays, what happens to all the characters is blatantly obvious!!!!

    I Also Recommend: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare), Much Ado About Nothing (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare).

    Great!by ArneyT

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    March 10, 2009: Every B&N Shakespeare has been awesome and this is no exception. Nice, clear text, helpful notations, and interesting articles. Highly recommended.


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