Twelfth Night: or, What You Will

William Shakespeare

Published by Yale University Press 2008

Twelfth Night

or, What You Will

William Shakespeare
Edited by: Burton Raffel
With contributions by: Harold Bloom

In the series The Annotated Shakespeare

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300134711

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About this book

Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as a man in order to enter the service of Orsino, duke of Illyria. Complications ensuedeceptions, infatuations, misdirected overtures, malevolent pranksas everyone is drawn into the hilarious confusion.

Author / Editor information

Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The most recent of his many publications is Selected Poems by Nicolas Boileau, published by Yale University Press. He lives in Lafayette. Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University, is the author of many books, including The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
about this book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
some essentials of the shakespearean stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxvii
Twelfth Night, or,What You Will Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
an essay by harold bloom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
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Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 192
Illustrations
- Other: 0

eBook

Published: October 1, 2008
ISBN: 9780300134711