“Shakespeare’s Life” profited by the careful reading given it by S. The “Reading Shakespeare’s Language” sections, for example, could not have been written had not Arthur King, of Brigham Young University, and Randal Robinson, author of Unlocking Shakespeare’s Language, led the way in untangling Shakespearean language puzzles and shared their insights and methodologies generously with us. We also include a section called “Reading Shakespeare’s Language,” in which we try to help readers learn to “break the code” of Elizabethan poetic language.įor each section of each volume, we are indebted to a host of generous experts and fellow scholars. We provide fresh accounts of the life of Shakespeare, of the publishing of his plays, and of the theaters in which his plays were performed, as well as an introduction to the text itself. We also follow the earlier edition in including illustrations-of objects, of clothing, of mythological figures-from books and manuscripts in the Folger Library collection. In response to this interest, we have based our edition on what we consider the best early printed version of a particular play (explaining our rationale in a section called “An Introduction to This Text”) and have marked our changes in the text-unobtrusively, we hope, but in such a way that the curious reader can be aware that a change has been made and can consult the “Textual Notes” to discover what appeared in the early printed version.Ĭurrent ways of looking at the plays are reflected in our brief introductions, in many of the commentary notes, in the annotated lists of “Further Reading,” and especially in each play’s “Modern Perspective,” an essay written by an outstanding scholar who brings to the reader his or her fresh assessment of the play in the light of today’s interests and concerns.Īs in the Folger Library General Reader’s Shakespeare, which this edition replaces, we include explanatory notes designed to help make Shakespeare’s language clearer to a modern reader, and we hyperlink notes to the lines that they explain. For example, modern readers, actors, and teachers have become interested in the differences between, on the one hand, the early forms in which Shakespeare’s plays were first published and, on the other hand, the forms in which editors through the centuries have presented them. This edition, while retaining many of the features that have always made the Folger Shakespeare so attractive to the general reader, at the same time reflects these current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. In recent years, ways of dealing with Shakespeare’s texts and with the interpretation of his plays have been undergoing significant change. Twelfth Night, or, What You Will Editors’ Preface An essay by a leading Shakespeare expert Excerpt Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases Full explanatory notes conveniently linked to the text of the play Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference The authoritative edition of Twelfth Night from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia-only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian previously caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke Orsino. Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the incredible comedy about unrequited love, both hilarious and heartbreaking, now presented by the Folger Shakespeare Library with valuable new tools for educators and dynamic new covers.
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