Twelfth Night - Texts and Contexts

Informationen zum Autor William Shakespeare, Edited by Bruce R. Smith Klappentext This edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night reprints the Bevington edition of the play along with seven sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include facsimilies of period documents, maps, woodcuts, descriptions of popular customs associated with Twelfth Night, anti-theatrical tracts, and excerpts from Ovid and Montaigne. Besides contextualizing the audience for Shakespeare's play and shedding light on some of his sources, the documents explore the range of sexual desires articulated in the play, competing ideas about music in early modern culture, religious controversy and the controversial place of laughter in early modern culture. Zusammenfassung This edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night reprints the Bevington edition of the play along with seven sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series About This Volume List of Illustrations Introduction PART ONE: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON PART TWO: Cultural Contexts 1. Romance Sir Benjamin Rudyerd , From Le Prince d'Amour, or The Prince of Love Place George Sandys , From A Relation of a Journey Begun Anno Domini 1610 Roger Ascham , From The Schoolmaster Barnaby Rich , From Barnaby Rich His Farewell to the Military Profession Time From The Book of Common Prayer Henry Bourne , From Antiquitates Vulgares, or the Antiquities of the Common People 2. Music Musical Resources Aristotle (Attributed), From The Problems of Aristotle, with Other Philosophers and Physicians Anthony Gibson , From A Woman's Worth Defended Against All the Men in the World Mind and Bodies Ovid , from Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized, and Represented in Figures Plutarch , From Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together John Case (Attributed), From The Praise of Music Thomas Wright , From The Passions of the Mind in General 3. Sexuality Will and Passion William Shakespeare , from Shake-spear's Sonnets, Never Before Imprinted Heart, Soul, and Genitalia Thomas Wright , From The Passions of the Mind in General Helkiah Crooke , From Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man Ovid , From The Heroical Epistles of Publius Ovidius Naso in English Verse John Donne , Sappho to Philaenis John Lyly , From Gallathea From The Whole Volume of Statutes at Large and Sir Edward Coke, From The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England Michel de Montaigne , From Essays Francis Beaumont , from Salmacis and Hermaphroditus 4. Clothing and Disguise From Of Excess of Apparel Edward Alleyn and Philip Henslowe , An Inventory of Costumes Social Rank A Proclamation Enforcing Statutes and Proclamations of Apparel, Robert Greene , from A Quip for an Upstart Courtier I. T. (or J. T.) , from The Haven of Pleasure Contai...

List of contents

  About the Series
    
  About This Volume
    
  List of Illustrations
    
  Introduction
    
PART ONE:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL
EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON
    
    
PART TWO:
  Cultural Contexts
    
  1. Romance
       Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, From Le Prince dAmour, or The Prince of Love
       Place
       George Sandys, From A Relation of a Journey Begun Anno Domini 1610
       Roger Ascham, From The Schoolmaster
       Barnaby Rich, From Barnaby Rich His Farewell to the Military Profession
       Time
       From The Book of Common Prayer
       Henry Bourne, From Antiquitates Vulgares, or the Antiquities of the Common People
    
  2. Music
       Musical Resources
       Aristotle (Attributed), From The Problems of Aristotle, with Other Philosophers and Physicians
       Anthony Gibson, From A Womans Worth Defended Against All the Men in the World
       Mind and Bodies
       Ovid, from Ovids Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized, and Represented in Figures
       Plutarch, From Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together
       John Case (Attributed), From The Praise of Music
       Thomas Wright, From The Passions of the Mind in General
    
  3. Sexuality
       Will and Passion
       William Shakespeare, from Shake-spears Sonnets, Never Before Imprinted
       Heart, Soul, and Genitalia
       Thomas Wright, From The Passions of the Mind in General
       Helkiah Crooke, From Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man
       Ovid, From The Heroical Epistles of Publius Ovidius Naso in English Verse
       John Donne, Sappho to Philaenis
       John Lyly, From Gallathea
       From The Whole Volume of Statutes at Large and Sir Edward Coke, From The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England
       Michel de Montaigne, From Essays
       Francis Beaumont, from Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
    
  4. Clothing and Disguise
       From Of Excess of Apparel
       Edward Alleyn and Philip Henslowe, An Inventory of Costumes
    Social Rank
       A Proclamation Enforcing Statutes and Proclamations of Apparel,
       Robert Greene, from A Quip for an Upstart Courtier
       I. T. (or J. T.), from The Haven of Pleasure Containing a Direction How to Live Well
       Gender
       Sir Philip Sidney, from Arcadia
       From Hic Mulier, or The Man-Woman and From Haec-Vir, or The Womanish Man
       Eight Accounts of Boy Actors
    
  5. Household Economies
       Decorum
       Stephano Guazzo, From Civil Conversation
       William Vaughan, From The Golden Grove Moralized in Three Books
       Traditional Hospitality
       Ben Jonson, To Penshurst
       From Grievous Groans for the Poor
       Donald Lupton, From London and the Country Cardonadoed and Quartered into Several Characters
       Puritan Ideals
       I. T. (or J. T.), From The Haven of Pleasure, Containing a Free Mans Felicity and a True Direction How to Live Well
       William Perkins, From Christian Economy
       Alternative Households
       William Prynne, from Histrio-Mastix, The Players Scourge or Actors Tragedy
       Augustine Phillips, Last Will and Testament
    
  6. Puritan Probity
       Sir Thomas Overbury, From A Wife . . . Whereunto Are Added Many Witty Characters
       Religion
       William Bradshaw, from English Puritanism
       Richard Bancroft, from A Survey of the Pretended Holy Discipline
       Economics
       Robert Cleaver and John Dod, From A Godly Form of Household Government
       The Politics of Mirth
       Phillip Stubbes, from The Anatomy of Abuses in Ailgna
       James I and Charles I. The Kings Majestys Declaration to His Subjects Concerning Lawful Sports to be Used
    
  7. Clowning and Laughter
       Quintilian, from Institutio Oratoria
       Robert Armins Career
       Robert Armin, From Fool upon Fool, or Six Sorts of Sots
       Robert Armin, From Quips upon Questions, or A Clowns Conceit on Occasion Offered
       Theories of Laughter
       Plato, from Philebus
       Plato, from Republic
       Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics
       Giovanni della Casa, From Galateo . . . or rather A Treatise of the Manners and Behaviors It Behooveth a Man to Use and Eschew
       Quintilian, from Institutio Oratoria
       Laurent Joubert, From Treatise on Laughter
       Sir Philip Sidney, From A Defense of Poesy
    
    Bibliography
    
    Index

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare, Bruce R. Smith
• Assisted by: J. M. Lothian (Editor), University J M (Georgetown University) Lothian (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2001
• EAN: 9780312202194
• ISBN: 978-0-312-20219-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Bedford Shakespeare; Bedford Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Theater, B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies