Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1994)

William Shakespeare.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
Edited by Roger Warren and Stanley Wells.
Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 2008.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Editors: Roger Warren and Stanley Wells

• Roger Warren was a Senior Lecturer of English, University of Leicester.
• Roger Warren edited four additional individual plays in The Oxford Shakespeare series: Cymbeline; Henry VI, Part Two; Pericles; The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
• Warren, Roger, 1943-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• Stanley Wells, his website.
• Stanley Wells (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
• Stanley Wells has written and edited many, many books related to Shakespeare. Some of them are described in the Books section of the Stanley Wells website.
• Stanley Wells, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Wells, Stanley, 1930-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia Articles :

Shakespeare :

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Twelfth Night, probably written in 1601; first documented performance 02 February 1602; first printed in 1623 (First Folio).
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Twelfth Night (1601).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• Shakespeare's influence.
• List of idioms attributed to Shakespeare.

English Renaissance Literature, Drama :

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time :

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan [religious] settlement, "implemented from 1559 to 1563".
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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Discussions of Shakespeare and Twelfth Night :

• Erik McCarthy, Introduction to William Shakespeare, YouTube, 21 January 2025.
  (The literary, social, and political context of Shakespeare; Shakespeare biography; book production; printing the plays. A very good survey.)
• Erik McCarthy, William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, YouTube, 15 February 2025.
• David Kern, Angelina Stanford, and Tim McIntosh, Twelfth Night, "Close Reads Podcast" at SubStack, "The Play's The Thing" at Apple Podcasts, 2017.
  Note: This podcast series on Twelfth Night was published on two different platforms under two different podcast names: Close Reads Podcast at SubStack and The Play's The Thing at Apple Podcasts. (The Apple Podcasts episodes may have advertisements.)
  1. Twelfth Night: Act I, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 24 November 2017.
     Angelina recommends :
     • E. M. W. Tillyard. The Elizabethan World Picture. London: Chatto & Windus, 1943; New York: Vintage Books, 1959.
       [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
     • Harold C. Goddard. The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
       [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
     • Harold C. Goddard. The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
       [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
     See also:
     • Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks, The Literary Life Podcast, Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
  2. Twelfth Night: Act II, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 01 December 2017.
  3. Twelfth Night: Act III, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 08 December 2017.
     (The restraints on Angelina's and Tim's religious enthusiasm are released for a moment in this episode. An interesting digression.)
  4. Twelfth Night: Act IV, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 15 December 2017.
  5. Twelfth Night: Act V, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 22 December 2017.
  6. Twelfth Night: Q&A, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 29 December 2017.
     (While the Close Reads Podcast folk are puzzled by the animus towards Malvolio, Paul Cantor's lectures present a very clear explanation of the political, social, and religious differences between the followers of the Church of England and the radical separatist Puritan sect (Brownists). Cantor also cites plays by Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614), which also feature the ridicule of Puritan characters. Cantor addresses the Malvolio and Puritanism topic(s) in both of his lectures.)
     See also History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I.
• Paul Cantor, "Twelfth Night", Shakespeare and Politics, recorded Spring 2015, posted to YouTube 01 March 2017.
  1. Twelfth Night (Lecture 1 of 2).
     (The first 15 minutes of this lecture finishes the discussion of a previous lecture on As You Like It and the All the world's a stage / seven ages of man speech.)
  2. Twelfth Night (Lecture 2 of 2).
  Paul Cantor information:
  • Paul Cantor (1945–2022), Wikipedia.
  • In Memoriam: Wide-Ranging Literary and Pop Culture Critic Paul Cantor, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, 08 March 2022.
  • In Memoriam, Virginia Magazine, Summer/Fall 2022.
• Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare's Lover's, Third Lecture in the Series Classic Shakespeare, Gresham College, 23 January 2018, YouTube 29 January 2018.
• Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare's Politics, Fourth Lecture in the Series Classic Shakespeare, Gresham College, 27 February 2018, YouTube 02 March 2018.
  (Not about Twelfth Night but provides some political context of Shakespeare, which may be of interest in light of Paul Cantor's lecture series Shakespeare and Politics.
  Bate's lecture mainly refers to Shakespeare's Roman history plays and doesn't directly say much about the politics of the Elizabethan era.)
• Melvyn Bragg, Pascale Aebischer, Michael Dobson, Emma Smith, "Twelfth Night, or What You Will," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 28 December 2023.
  (Reading List, References in Episode Notes.
  Unfortunately, these once free programs now require a subscription.)

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Some Other Recent Editions of Twelfth Night :

• William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Edited by Keir Elam. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night: or What You Will, Third Edition. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Essays about Twelfth Night :

• Harold Jenkins, "Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," pages 72-87 in Shakespeare: The Comedies: A Collection of Critical Essays, Edited by Kenneth Muir, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
  [Archive.org; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  (Roger Warren's and Stanley Wells' Introduction to The Oxford Shakespeare edition of Twelfth Night refers to this essay several times.)
• Stanley Wells, editor. Twelfth Night: Critical Essays. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986; Routledge, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Note :
I previously read Twelfth Night in 2024. My 2024 blog post is here.

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