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03508aam a2200313 i 4500 001 50EB8E76440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240717010108 008 230923s2024 maua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1637007280 020 $a 9781637007280 035 $a (OCoLC)1398569064 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a PR2837 T84 2024 245 00 $a Twelfth night, or what you will / $c editor, Robert C. Evans. 246 3 $a Critical insights : Twelfth night, or what you will 264 1 $a Ipswich, Massachusetts : $b Salem Press ; $c [2024] 300 $a xlii, 294 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Critical insights 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's most-loved but also most complex comedies. Frequently performed on stage as well as commonly filmed and televised, this play is famously funny but also nuanced, presenting abundant humor of various shades (from slapstick to subtle, raucous to witty) while also presenting nuanced shades of darkness and many reasons for serious reflection. Malvalio--at once the most ridiculous and most abused character in the play--is, for both reasons, often the most memorable; his role has been interpreted and performed in numerous ways, and the play itself has provoked diverse and often conflicting reactions. This volume will explore this notoriously gender-bending comedy from numerous perspectives, offering historical, comparative, stylistic, psychological, and philosophical perspectives (among many others) while also examining the ways the work has been performed in various media and eras. This volume, like all the others in the Critical Insights series, is divided into several distinct sections. It begins with several introductory essays (including this one), then presents four contextual essays, then offers ten individual "critical readings," and finally concludes with various "resources" designed to supply readers with further historical and bibliographical information. The volume next offers biographies of the editor and contributors and finally concludes with a comprehensive index of names, titles, and topics. The present volume opens with an introductory essay by Nicolas Tredell, a distinguished British scholar, who examines Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night in terms of several different kinds of characters who appear within the play. These include women, tricksters, clod-poles, gulls, clowns, and lovers. In particular, Tredell's essay "explores key elements of humor and pathos in Twelfth Night as they emerge in its specific words, actions and situations and feed into its overall themes." He first focuses on the play's "wit and wordplay, as exemplified in the initial duel of wit and words between Maria and Feste, which Maria wins" and then goes on "to consider the kinship between the Fool and the Trickster" before finally exploring "pathos in the play as evoked through the figures of Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Malvolio, Antonio, and Feste.""--Publisher's website. 600 10 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616. $t Twelfth night $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616 $x Criticism and interpretation. 700 1 $a Evans, Robert C., $d 1955- $e editor. 830 0 $a Critical insights. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717024109.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=50EB8E76440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search