Twelfth Night
By: Edited by J. C. DENT, M. A.
Series: New Clarendon Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Oxford; New York; Toronto; Delhi; Bombay; Calcutta; Madras; Karachi; Petaling Jaya; Singapore; Hong Kong; Tokyo; Nairobi; Dar es Salaam; Cape Town; Melbourne; Auckland; Berlin; Ibadan
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9 780198 319207
Copyright date: 1958
Description: This edition of Shakespeare aims primarily at presenting the text in such a way that it can be easily read and understood. The language of Shakespeare presents considerable difficulties to the beginner, difficulties which are soon forgotten and overlooked by readers who are familiar with the plays. The answers of examination candidates often reveal unexpected ignorance of quite ordinary Shakespearian phraseology and vocabulary. In the notes, therefore, the main emphasis has been placed on the interpretation of words and phrases. Textual and linguistic matter, to which much space was given in the old Clarendon Press editions of Wright and Clark, has been kept in the background, but explanation is prominent. The notes have been divided; words and phrases capable of a short explanation are glossed at the foot of the page, while the more difficult passages are treated after the text in the general commentary.
   In the commentary alternative explanations and the mention of critics by name have been avoided as far as possible; on the other hand there are a number of less elementary notes on textual points and other matters not strictly necessary for younger students, and these appear in smaller type and within square brackets.
   After the commentary is printed a substantial selection from the best criticism of the play, old and new; a feature in which this edition of Shakespeare follows the plan set by the Clarendon English series. Here some matter will be found suitable for more advanced students; and the inclusion of varying opinions will provide material for reflection and comparison. It is the editor's belief that students can best be taught to criticize by the provision of material which they may use as a starting-point as well as a model.
Notes: *First published 1938
Reprinted 1940 (with corrections), 1947, 1948, 1950, 1955, 
1958, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1983, 
1984, 1985, 1987, 1989*

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THE NEW CLARENDON SHAKESPEARE

Under the general editorship of R. E. C. HOUGHTON, M.A. 
*Sometime Fellow and Tutor of St. Peter's College, Oxford*

Edited by 
*Antony and Cleopatra* R. E. C. Houghton
*As You Like It* Isabel J. Bisson
*Coriolanus* B. H. Kemball-Cook
*Hamlet* George Rylands
*Henry IV, Part I* Bertram Newman
*Henry IV, Part II* William R. Rutland
*Henry V* Ronald F. W. Fletcher
*Julius Caesar* R. E. C. Houghton
*King Lear* R. E. C. Houghton
*Macbeth* Bernard Groom
*Measure for Measure* R. E. C. Houghton
*Merchant of Venice* Ronald F. W. Fletcher
*Midsummer Night's Dream* F. C. Horwood
*Much Ado about Nothing* Philip Wayne
*Othello* F. C. Horwood and R. E. C. Houghton
*Richard II* John M. Lothian
*Richard III* R. E. C. Houghton
*Romeo and Juliet* R. E. C. Houghton
*The Tempest* J. R. Sutherland
*The Winter's Tale* S. L. Bethell
*Twelfth Night* J. C. Dent

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*Printed in Hong Kong*


*The text of* Twelfth Night *here printed is complete except for the omission of one phrase and one sentence of prose.*
Table of contents: pagenum: 7
title: INTRODUCTION; pagenum: 7
title: Date of the Play; pagenum: 8
title: The Sources of the Play; pagenum: 9
title: Text of the Play; pagenum: 11
title: The Play on the Shakespearian Stage; pagenum: 12
title: The Plot of the Play; pagenum: 17
title: TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL; pagenum: 109
title: NOTES; pagenum: 135
title: SELECT LITERARY CRITICISM; pagenum: 135
title: Hazlitt on Twelfth Night; pagenum: 135
title: John Masefield on Twelfth Night; pagenum: 137
title: John Dover Wilson on Twelfth Night; pagenum: 137
title: The Character of Viola; pagenum: 138
title: The Character of Olivia; pagenum: 139
title: The Character of Malvolio; pagenum: 139
title: The Character of Feste; pagenum: 142
title: Shakespeare's Use of Song; pagenum: 145
title: The Social Background of the Play; pagenum: 146
title: John Bailey on Twelfth Night; title: APPENDIXES; title: The Life of William Shakespeare with a Table of his Plays
pagenum: 149
label: I.; title: A Note on Language by Dr. C. T. Onions
pagenum: 151
label: II.; title: A Note on Metre
pagenum: 158
label: III.