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Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The State of Play
Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The State of Play
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Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will through a variety of critical lenses.
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion and unrequited love was a critical play for feminist readings and ideas related to cross-dressing, gender fluidity and relationships in the 1980s. Since then, it has been somewhat critically adrift. Smith's collection of essays resets the critical conversation that surrounds this play to a more contemporary idiom and provides an up-to-date reader for both professors and their students.
An interdisciplinary volume, this book gathers a range of voices and views in order to assess how transformative work on texts, identity and race has impacted Twelfth Night's standing in current Shakespeare conversations. Scholars from across the globe utilize viewpoints stemming from transgender studies, environmental studies, racial studies and queer theory, in order to provide a present-day exploration of the play's critical framework. These essays will stimulate future conversations that arise from recent adaptations and performance traditions from beyond the anglophone sphere.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction: 'What country, friends, is this?': Twelfth Night's Critical History, Emma Smith (University of Oxford, UK)
1. 'The House is Dark': Playing Night and Darkness in Twelfth Night
Gwilym Jones (University of Westminster, UK)
2. Shipwreck, Sexual Experience and Servitude in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Identity Tokens from the Waters of the Roman, Ottoman and Italian Mediterranean
Susanne Wofford (New York University, USA)
3. 'Not at home': Migration and Displacement in Twelfth Night
Emma Smith (University of Oxford, UK)
4. Salt Waves Fresh: Ecological Adaptation in Australia
Gretchen E. Minton (Montana State University, USA)
5. Transing the Crux: Sounding the 'O' in Cesario
Natasha Korda (Wesleyan University, USA)
6. Foolish Things: Transgender Alternatives to Cesario
Ezra Horbury (University of York, UK)
7. Twelfth Night, Transmisogyny, and 'Original Practices'
Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College, USA)
8. The Afterlives of a Queer Pirate: Reading Antonio in Early Modernity
Huw Griffiths (The University of Sydney, Australia)
9. Virtual Embodiment in Twelfth Night
Louise Geddes (Adelphi University, USA)
10. As Men Say, Swear, and Prove: Constructing Black Masculinity in the Classical Theater of Harlem's Malvolio
Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA)
11. Occluded Orientalisms in Twelfth Night
Katherine Hennessey (Wenzhou-Kean University, China)
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Product details
| Published | Apr 02 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350456402 |
| Imprint | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Illustrations | 6 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Series | Arden Shakespeare The State of Play |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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