Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The State of Play

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2026
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-45640-2 (ISBN)

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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, and stimulate future conversations that arise from recent adaptations and performance traditions from beyond the anglophone sphere.

Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK, where she teaches Shakespeare and early modern literature to undergraduates and graduates. Her work is mainly on Shakespeare and Renaissance dramatists. She has written extensively for an advanced student readership, as well as managed several edited collections through to successful publication.

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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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Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	Arden Shakespeare The State of Play
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Ann Thompson, Professor Lena Cowen Orlin
Zusatzinfo	6 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-350-45640-3 / 1350456403
ISBN-13	978-1-350-45640-2 / 9781350456402
Zustand	Neuware