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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 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 ...
