For four centuries Twelfth Night has inspired theatre directors and performers: some have found class war; some have seen Malvolio as a tragic hero; some have found a passive Viola and others have found an action woman. Whether a production's emphasis is on gender bending, festivity, or trying to reinvent Shakespeare as Chekhov, the sheer variety of Twelfth Nights on offer over the centuries attests to the play's power as a stimulus to theatrical creativity. The dazzling range of the Twelfth Nights considered here includes the productively wayward as well as the conventionally respectable, productions which play to the contemporary market as well as those that seek to flout tradition. This indispensable stage history covers changing fashions in the fortunes of Twelfth Night, and includes a survey of a wide variety of theatrical interpretations of the play in the English-speaking world.
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For four centuries Twelfth Night has inspired theatre directors and performers. Surveying a dazzling range of Twelfth Night productions - including many significant productions which have not received due critical attention previously - Schafer provides the reader with an indispensable stage history of this popular play, from its first performance to today.
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Elizabeth Schafer is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Shakespeare's best comedy, gloriously illuminated,
By Cedric LaFarge (Newport, Rhode Island) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Twelfth Night (Penguin Shakespeare) (Paperback)
Of course Twelfth Night is Shakespeare's best comedy, you know it is -- twins, yellow stockings, sexual ambiguity, romance, what more do you want? The surprise is that this little paperback is the best edition of it on the market. I'm glad my old Pelican fell to bits so I had to shop for a replacement. The introduction to this new Penguin just knocks the spots off the Arden, the Oxford and all the other plodding scholarly college editions -- a far better way into the play, witty and cute and illuminating. And it's small enough to go into a pocket or into a rehearsal room.
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