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Twelfth Night

By William Shakespeare
Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
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Twelfth Night is a brilliant comedy by William Shakespeare that explores themes of unrequited love, mistaken identity, and the complexities of affection. Set around the festive twelfth night after Christmas, the play follows the Countess Olivia, her suitors—including the Duke Orsino and the steward Malvolio—and the arrival of the shipwrecked twins, Viola and Sebastian. Viola disguises herself as a male page and becomes entwined in a charming and tangled web of love and mistaken identities, leading to both humorous and poignant moments.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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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.

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; previously caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia—only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships.

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 exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference
  • Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation
  • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
  • Full explanatory notes conveniently linked to the text of the play
  • Scene-by-scene plot summaries
  • A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases
  • An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language
  • An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
  • Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books
  • An annotated guide to further reading
  • An essay by a leading Shakespeare expert

Series: Folger Shakespeare Library

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781982122492

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 June 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Simon & Schuster

Illustration: b&w illustrations throughout

Contributors:

  • Edited by Dr. Barbara A. Mowat
  • Edited by Paul Werstine
  • Edited by Dr. Barbara A. Mowat
  • Edited by Paul Werstine
  • Edited by Dr. Barbara A. Mowat
  • Edited by Paul Werstine

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 383g

Pages: 336

Collections

Arts & Culture Classic Poetry Contemporary Romance Non-Fiction Series: Folger Shakespeare Library William Shakespeare

About the Author

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing.

Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at King’s University College at Western University. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.

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