"A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Shakespeare's language with specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. This lively and informative guide uses close reading of Twelfth Night's complexlanguage to explore its themes and plot"--
Frances E. Dolan examines the puzzling pronouns and puns, the love poetry, mischief, and disguises of Twelfth Night, exploring its themes of grief, obsessive love, social climbing and gender identity, and helping you towards your own close-readings.
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A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Shakespeare's language with specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. This lively and informative guide uses close reading of Twelfth Nights complex language to explore its themes and plot.
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| Preface |
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| Introduction - ways in |
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Starting with when and where |
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Boy actors, cross-dressing and sexuality |
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27 | (9) |
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36 | (5) |
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1 Language in print: 'tis poetical |
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Like a cloistress: Talking about Olivia |
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2 Language, character and plot |
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Speakers and their speeches: Pronouns and conditionals in 2.4 and 5.1 |
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Bears, baiting and other animal imagery |
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108 | (4) |
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112 | (6) |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (3) |
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122 | (4) |
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126 | (9) |
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4 From reading to writing |
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What can we make of what isn't said? What does silence tell us? |
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What are you? Proof and plot |
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What does it take to create an ending? |
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What makes for a good marriage in Illyria? Is marriage a happy ending? |
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`A candle and pen, ink, and paper': Getting down to the business of writing |
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Frances E. Dolan is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, USA. She has also taught at Miami University, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. Her textbook, The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts (1996), continues to be taught widely, as do the five plays she has edited. In addition, Dolan is the author of four scholarly books, most recently True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England, as well as numerous articles in journals and collections. A former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, she has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (at the Newberry and Folger libraries), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and, most recently, the Huntington Library, where she was a Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellow.
