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PublisherHackett Publishing Company, Incorporated

ISBN-101585101648

ISBN-139781585101641

eBay Product ID (ePID)1626833

Product Key Features

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTwelfth Night

SubjectShakespeare, General

Publication Year2012

TypeTextbook

AuthorWilliam Shakespeare

Subject AreaDrama

SeriesNew Kittredge Shakespeare Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height5.5 in

Item Weight6.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width0.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2012-022603

ReviewsGayle Gaskill offers appropriate tribute to G.L. Kittredge by updating his classic edition with a mastery, thoroughness, and verve worthy of the original. This excellent edition is marked by impeccable scholarship that everywhere displays careful attention to detail and keen sensitivity to the needs of modern readers. -John W. Mahon, Co-Editor, The Shakespeare Newsletter, and Professor of English, Iona College., Gayle Gaskill offers appropriate tribute to G.L. Kittredge by updating his classic edition with a mastery, thoroughness, and verve worthy of the original. This excellent edition is marked by impeccable scholarship that everywhere displays careful attention to detail and keen sensitivity to the needs of modern readers. --John W. Mahon, Co-Editor, The Shakespeare Newsletter, and Professor of English, Iona College.

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal822.3/3

Table Of ContentTABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction to the Kittredge Edition Introduction to the Focus Edition Twelfth Night How to Read Twelfth Night as Performance Timeline Topics for Discussion and Further Study Bibliography Filmography

SynopsisGeorge Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments, all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. These new editions have specific emphasis on the performance histories of the plays (on stage and screen). Features of each edition include: The original introduction to the Kittredge Edition Editor's Introduction to the Focus Edition. An overview on major themes of the plays, and sections on the play's performance history on stage and screen. Explanatory Notes. The explanatory notes either expand on Kittredge's superb glosses, or, in the case of plays for which he did not write notes, give the needed explanations for Shakespeare's sometimes demanding language. Performance notes. These appear separately and immediately below the textual footnotes and include discussions of noteworthy stagings of the plays, issues of interpretation, and film and stage choices. How to read the play as Performance Section. A discussion of the written play vs. the play as performed and the various ways in which Shakespeare's words allow the reader to envision the work "off the page." Comprehensive Timeline. Covering major historical events (with brief annotations) as well as relevant details from Shakespeare's life. Some of the Chronologies include time chronologies within the plays. Topics for Discussion and Further Study Section. Critical Issues: Dealing with the text in a larger context and considerations of character, genre, language, and interpretative problems. Performance Issues: Problems and intricacies of staging the play connected to chief issues discussed in the Focus Editions' Introduction. Select Bibliography & Filmography Film stills from major productions, for comparison and scene study., New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes to provide an entry for students to Shakespeare's plays. Included: performance notes, essays on reading that play as a performance.

LC Classification NumberPR2837.A2G36 2012