Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in performance, and this edition emphasizes its theatrical qualities in both the introduction and the full and detailed commentary. Where the original music has not survived, James...
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Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in performance, and this edition emphasizes its theatrical qualities in both the introduction and the full and detailed commentary. Where the original music has not survived, James Walker has composed settings compatible with the surviving originals, freshly edited, so that this edition, uniquely, offers all the music required to perform the play. Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- A 'Twelfth Night' Play? -- Illyria -- 'Most like ... that in Italian called "Inganni" ' -- A Central Comedy -- Kinds of Love -- 'Make me a willow cabin': Viola and Olivia -- 'She never told her love': Viola and Orsino -- Antonio and Sebastian -- The Gulling of Malvolio -- Problems of the Intrigue Actions -- Feste―and Sir Topaz -- The Finale -- The Text -- Editorial Procedures -- Abbreviations and References -- TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL -- APPENDIX -- The Music by James Walker -- INDEX.