The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship & emphasis on performance The series features line-by-line commentaries & textual notes on the plays & poems Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical stage & screen interpretations This third edition of Twelfth Night retains the text edited & annotated by Elizabeth Story Donno for the first edition of 1985 & features an updated introduction by Penny Gay which focuses on recent scholarship & performance history Building on her Introduction to the second edition Gay stresses the play's theatricality its elaborate linguistic games & its complex use of Ovidian myths She analyses the delicate balance Shakespeare strikes in Twelfth Night between romance & realism & explores representations of gender sexuality & identity in the text A selection of new photographs completes the edition ...

Edited Introduced & Annotated by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal Variously melancholy lyrical joyous & farcical Twelfth Night has long been a popular comedy with Shakespearian audiences The main plot revolves around mistaken identities & unrequited love Both Olivia & Orsino are attracted to Viola who is disguised as a young man; & Viola's brother Sebastian finds that he is loved not only by Antonio but also by Olivia Meanwhile in the comic sub-plot Sir Toby Belch & his companions outwit the vain Malvolio who is ludicrously humiliated While offering broad comedy Twelfth Night teasingly probes gender-roles & sexual ambiguities ...

An enhanced larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays extensively rewritten expanded & produced in an attractive new design An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible & creative ways Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language interest in character & sense of theatre Substantially revised & extended in full colour classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ' Stagecraft' ' Write about it' ' Language in the play' ' Characters' & ' Themes' features Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for ' Twelfth Night' & Shakespeare

Includes:: rich exciting colour photos of performances of ' Twelfth Night' from around the world

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Identical mixed-sex twins separated during a shipwreck both believe the other dead When Viola dresses as her &dead& brother for better protection little does she realise that her living brother will be on the scene as well Based on the William Shakespeare play adapted for the screen by Trevor Nunn ...

Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex & intriguing plays Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities In recent years it has returned to the centre of critical debate surrounding gender & sexuality The Introduction explores the multiple factors that make up the play's rich textual theatrical critical & cultural history Keir Elam surveys the play's production & reception emphasizing the role of the spectator both within the comedy & the playhouse ...

Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre & this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout Peopled with lovers misled either by disguises or their own natures it combines lyrical melancholy with broad comedy The introduction analyses its many views of love & the juxtaposition of joy & melancholy while the detailed commentary pays particular attention to its linguistic subtleties Music is particularly important in Twelfth Night & this is the only modern edition to offer material for all the music required in a performance James Walker has re-edited the existing music from the original sources & where noe exists has composed settings compatible with the surviving originals ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Key Features Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes & techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical & literary background Modern & historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary of literary terms ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Adapted from Reginald Rose&s television play this film marked the directing debut of Sidney Lumet At the end of a murder trial in New York City the twelve jurors retire to consider the verdict The man in the dock is a young Puerto Rican accused of killing his father & eleven of the twelve jurors do not hesitate in finding him guilty However one of the jurors (Henry Fonda) reluctant to send the youngster to his death without any debate returns a vote of not guilty From this single event the jurors begin to re-evaluate the case as they look at the murder
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- in a fresh light Actors Henry Fonda Lee J Cobb Ed Begley EG Marshall Jack Warden Martin Balsam John Fiedler Jack Klugman Ed Binns & Joseph Sweeney Director Sidney Lumet Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1957 Screen Widescreen 1781 Languages French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish ; English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles English ; German ; French ; Italian ; Spanish ; Dutch ; Swedish ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Danish ; English For The Hard of Hearing ; German For The Hard Of Hearing Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players



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A young delinquent is on trial for the murder of his aggressive father The judge has directed the jury to find the boy guilty if there is no reasonable doubt Eleven of the jurors declare there is no reasonable doubt but one of them while far from convinced of the boy's innocence feels that some of the evidence against him has been ambiguous At the end of a long afternoon he wins all the others round to his view ...