Twelfth Night : Texts and Contexts (The Bedford Shakespeare Series)
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This edition of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night reprints the Bevington edition of the play along with 7 sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare’s play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, maps, woodcuts, descriptions of the popular customs associated with Twelfth Night, anti-theatrical tracts, royal proclamations concerning dress, laws prohibiting certain sexual acts, poems fantasizing those very acts, early modern texts on household economies, passages from Puritan conduct books, excerpts from Ovid and Montaigne, a representative range of early modern opinions about boy actors, and theories of laughter. Besides contextualizing the audience for Shakespeare’s play and shedding light on some of his sources, the documents explore the range of sexual desires articulated in the play, competing ideas about music in early modern culture, religious controversy, the regulation of early modern society according to hierarchies, and the controversial place of laughter in early modern culture.
Twelfth Night: Texts and Contexts (The Bedford Shakespeare Series),William Shakespeare,Bruce R. Smith,Bedford/St. Martin's,0312202199,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literary Collections,Literature: Classics,Plays / Drama,Shakespeare,Drama / Shakespeare
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