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Twelfth Night (Bantam Classic)
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Other items of interest: • Much Ado About Nothing • The Tempest (Signet Classics) • Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare) • The Merchant of Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) • Henry IV, Part 1 (Pelican Shakespeare)  Product Description: Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming “Count Malvolio” only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymakers he wishes to suppress. The two plots combine to create a farce touched with melancholy, mixed throughout with seductively beautiful explorations on the themes of love and time, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s sad song. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography Book Description: John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary. Customer Reviews:   Not for Visually ImpairedReview date: 2009-09-22 This review is simply referring to the format. This is not a Large Print edition for use by someone with a visual impairment, the text is standard size. User-friendly editionReview date: 2008-12-01 Includes photos from multiple productions. Eye-friendly type-face. Plenty of room for notes. Useful suggestions for classroom involvement. No surprises here...Review date: 2008-04-15 What can I say? I love Shakespeare! Cliff's Complete is fabulous for those of us in a new love affair with Shakespeare. Commentary and side notes along the way make it very understandable. Kenneth Branaugh's film and BBC audio books lend subtle interpretation which is very helpful as well. What You WillReview date: 2008-01-05 Twelfth Night or What You Will is the story of a brother and sister, twins, who are shipwrecked and each assume the other sibling has died. Viola, the sister, takes on her brother's appearance in order to serve the Duke of Illyria, Orsino. Disguised as a man, Viola falls in love with Orsino, but Orsino is in love with the countess Olivia and sends Viola in his stead to woo Olivia for himself. This is Shakespearean comedy, so naturally, Olivia falls in love with Viola, believing her to be a man. More confusion ensues when Viola's twin brother Sebastian enters the action of the play and is mistaken for the man his sister has been pretending to be. Twelfth Night is an amusing, if somewhat formulaic, comedy that is both endearing at times and disturbing at others. It leaves the reading wondering what to think. More than likely, this is exactly what Mr. Shakespeare intended. The Cambridge School Shakespeare edition of Twelfth Night is obviously geared towards students, particularly theater and drama students as opposed to literature students. The text of the play is shown on one page while the previous, facing page describes the action of the play in addition to suggesting exercises to ascertain how each particular section could be played. My favorite part about this edition is the inclusion of all the photos, especially the photos showing how different productions handled the same scene. Personally, I prefer more in depth discussion about Shakespeare's plays than this edition offers, but it is probably ideal for a high school student or theater student studying Shakespeare. Good, But Flawed Review date: 2006-07-17 Many of you probably recall this play as the one Shakespeare began to write at the end of "Shakespeare In Love." As far as this movie goes, Shakespeare was to write something where love triumphed rather than failing as it did in "Romeo and Juliet." This comedy is often hailed as the best, but there are reasons I can not place it on the same level as "The Comedy of Errors," "The Merchant of Venice," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "As You Like It," or others. We meet Orsino the Duke who is love with Olivia. But Olivia chooses to avoid men. (She never quite got over the death of her brother and father.) We also meet Viola. She has survived a shipwreck but fears her brother Sebastian has died in the wreck. Fearful of being raped, she disguises herself as a man, and enters Orsino's service under the alias Cesario. Shakespeare then introduces us to characters of a subplot. (Maria, Toby, and Andrew) They are planning a practical joke on Malvolio. Moving on, Orsino asks Viola/Cesario to woo Olivia for him. This is of course hard for her, since she loves the Duke, but she proceeds. To add to her problems, Olivia falls in love with her! Later, we see that Viola's brother Sebastian has survived and we meet Antonio. Antonio is wanted in the area for theft, but his touching loyalty will not allow him to abandon Sebastian. There is a comical scene where Orsino has a man to man talk with Viola/Cesario. Now here we come to a part I have a problem with. Maria, Andrew, and Toby plan an over the top practical joke on Malvolio. I find this to be beneath the comedy that is caused by human misunderstanding such as in "The Comedy of Errors." Moving on, Toby pretends to want to try to stop a fight between Andrew and Viola/Cesario but keeps prompting the fight as well. Antonio mistakes Viola for Sebastian and saves her. But I have another problem here. Viola watches Antonio get arrested after he saved her, and she allows him to be taken to prison. Certainly she was close enough to the Duke to ask for this man who had been helpful to be released. (And she knows she was mistaken for her brother Sebastian!) Eventually the errors of the day are sorted out when Sebastian comes on the screen married to Olivia. And Shakespeare allows us to infer that Antonio will not be punished. And of course Malvolio comes on stage screaming for revenge over what he feels he has suffered. It is a good play with intertwined plots, comedy, and enough tragic elements to make it real. But there are some flaws that prevent me from placing this on the same level as "As You Like It," "Merchant of Venice," "Comedy of Errors," and some others. Product Details/Specifications: Authors: William Shakespeare Creators: David Bevington (Editor) David Scott Kastan (Editor) Recording label: Bantam Classics Publishers: Bantam Classics Manufacturer: Bantam Classics EAN: 9780553213089 Binding: Paperback Dewey decimal number: 822.33 ISBN: 0553213083 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 256 Publication date: 1988-01-01 Release date: 1988-01-01 |
