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