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Lang:- eng, Pages 213. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back[1911]. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, there may be some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Customisation is possible). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions.Original Title:- Twelfth night; or, What you will; 1911 [Hardcover] Author:- Shakespeare, William, ,Hudson, Henry Norman, ,Black, Ebenezer Charlton, ed

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...v. i. 364--"let no quarrel nor no brawl to come Taint the condition of this present hour", we have 'to' inserted where we should omit it, and omitted where we should usually insert it. 17. hart. Shakespeare makes his characters play upon their words in their most serious moments. So Antony, mourning over Caesar, makes this same pun (Julius Caesar, iii. 1. 207)--"O world, thou wast the forest to this hart, And this, O world, the very heart of thee"; and Rosalind, in a lighter mood (As You Like It, iii. 2. 260)--'Cel. He was furnished like a hunter. Rot. Oh, ominous! he comes to kill my heart". i9. The Duke in this passage compares himself to Actaeon, who, having beheld Artemis and her attendants bathing, was turned into a stag, and devoured by his own hounds. The idea of the lover as an Actaeon, torn by the desires which should be under his own control, suffering for the beautiful vision he has seen, occurs frequently in the Elizabethans. 22. fell, 'fierce'. 23. pursue me. After 'since' we should say 'have pursued me'. 23. How now. For the metre, see App. B, § 3 (iv.). 24. so please, for 'if it so please', or 'may it so please', is a very frequent form of ellipse. 26. element, the air or sky. The universe was supposed to be composed of the four 'elements'--air, earth, water, fire: and the word is used specially of air, cf. Julius Caesar, i. 3. 128--' the complexion of the element In favour 's like the work we have in hand ". 27. seven years' heat, the heat of seven years, 'seven summers'. The Folios read years instead of years', and several commentators regard heat as a participle=heated, referring to 'the element'. Cf. King John, iv. 1. 61, "The iron of itself, though heat red-hot". This formation of the particip...

Romantic folly and false identites abound as an unusual love triangle takes the stage in this play about Orsino, the infatuated Duke of Illyria; Olivia, the countess he pursues; and Viola, the woman disguised as a man who comes between them. This revised Signet Classics edition includes unique features such as: An overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater A special introduction to the play by the editor, Herschel Baker Selections from Barnabe Rich, Of Apolonius and Silla, the source from which Shakespeare derived Twelfth Night Dramatic criticism from Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and others A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable text And more.

"Twelfth Night" is the story of Orsino, a nobleman in the kingdom if Illyria. Following a shipwreck Orsino employs Viola, who when abandoned by the shipwreck disguises herself as a man named Cesario. Soon Viola falls in love with Orsino, however Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia who has fallen for Viola, believing her to be a man. "Twelfth Night" is a classic Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identities.