William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook [Hardcover]

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night(c.1600) is one of his most captivating plays. A comedy of mistaken identities, it has given rise to thought-provoking debates around such issues as gender identity and role-playing, manipulation and deception.

Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's spirited play offers:

• extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to the present
• annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself
• cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
• suggestions for further reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literatureseries, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Twelfth Nightand seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeare's text.

Sonia Massaiis a Lecturer at Kings College London. She has published widely on Shakespeare and drama and has edited several original plays and a collection of essays on World Wide Shakespeares(Routledge, 2005).