Twelfth night

Series introduction

Introduction / Harold Bloom

Biography of William Shakespeare

Summary of Twelfth Night - Key passages in Twelfth Night

List of characters in Twelfth Night

Criticism throughout the ages

Twelfth Night in the seventeenth century

From his Diary, February 2 / John Manningham 1601

From The diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys 1663

Twelfth Night in the eighteenth century

"The fable of Twelfth-Night, or What you will," from Shakespear Illustrated, or the Novels and histories on which the plays of Shakespeare are founded / Charlotte Lennox 1753

From "Notes on Twelfth Night, of What you will," from The plays of William Shakespear / Samuel Johnson 1765

"Twelfth Night : or, What you will," from The morality of Shakespeare's drama Illustrated / Elizabeth Griffith 1775

Twelfth Night in the nineteenth century

"Twelfth Night : or, What you will," from Characters of Shakespear's plays / William Hazlitt 1817

From On some of the old actors / Charles Lamb 1823

From "viola," from Shakespeare's heroines : characteristics of women, moral, poetical, & historical / Anna Jameson 1833

From The pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere 1839

From The Illustrated Shakespeare / G.C. Verplanck

From Wit, humor, and Shakespeare /

John Weiss 1876

Twelfth Night ; or, What you will, from Shakespeare's dramatic art : history and character of Shakespeare's plays (third edition) / Hermann Ulrici 1876

From "Introduction to the play," from The Leopold Shakespere 1877

"Notes and introduction to Twelfth Night; or, What you will," from The works of William Shakespeare (The Henry Irving Shakespeare) / Arthur Symons 1894

"Twelfth Night," from William Shakespeare : a critical study / Georg Brandes 1898

Twelfth Night in the twentieth century

"Introduction to Twelfth Night," from The complete works of William Shakespeare / Maurice Hewlett 1907

"The organic unity of Twelfth Night," from PMLA / Morris P. Tilley 1914

"Character of Viola," from Shakespeare on the stage / William Winter 1915

"Feste the jester," from A book of homage to Shakespeare / A.C. Bradley 1916

"The Illyrians," from The English comic characters / J.B. Priestley 1925

From "The romantic comedies," from The Shakespearian Tempest / G. Wilson Knight 1932

"Twelfth Night," from The meaning of Shakespeare / Harold C. Goddard 1951

"The design of Twelfth Night," from Shakespeare Quarterly / Leo Salingar 1958

"Testing courtesy and humanity in Twelfth Night," from Shakespeare's festive comedy / C.L. Barber 1959

From "Shakespeare's bitter Arcadia," from Shakespeare our contemporary / Jan Kott 1966

"Introduction," from Twelfth Night (Chelsea House) / Harold Bloom 1987

Twelfth Night in the twenty-first century

From "Last scene of all : retirement from the theatre," from Shakespeare : an introduction / David Bevington 2002

"Twelfth Night, gender, and comedy," from Early modern English drama : a critical companion / R.W. Maslen 2006

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.