Twelfth Night: A Critical Reader

Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK.Liz Oakley-Brown is Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Writing at the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK.

• Series Introduction Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins \ 'Twelfth Night' Timeline \ Notes on Contributors \ Introduction Alison Findlay and Liz Oakley-Brown \ 1. The Critical Backstory R.S. White \ 2. Performance History Linda Anderson \ 3. The State of the Art William C. Carroll \ 4. New Directions \ i. Pictures and Perception in 'Twelfth Night' Keir Elam \ ii. Ships, Shipwrecks and Pauline Echoes in 'Twelfth Night' Randall Martin \ iii. The Professional Comic in 'Twelfth Night' Andrew Stott \ iv. Music in 'Twelfth Night' Tiffany Stern \ 5. Pedagogy and Resources Peter Kirwan \ Bibliography \ Index.

A teacher will find this little book, which brings together old and new thinking about Shakespeare’s ‘most perfect comedy’, a godsend ... the multifarious productions and the disagreements among experts so eloquently canvassed in this collection testify to Twelfth Night’s continuing inspirational vitality into the twenty-first century.