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FURTHER READING

REVIEWS AND RETROSPECTIVE ACCOUNTS

"The Field of the Arts." Arts & Decoration, Combined with The Spur LIII, No. 2 (January 1941): 10.

Mixed review of Margaret Webster's 1940 revival of Twelfth Night at the St. James Theater in New York, in which the critic asserts that the text of the production lacks a "poetic touch." The reviewer also suggests that both Helen Hayes as Viola and Maurice Evans as Malvolio are miscast.

Billington, Michael. "Twelfth Night at the Aldwych." The Guardian (6 February 1975): 10.

Commends Peter Gill's emphasis on self-love and sexual ambiguity in his 1975 revival of Twelfth Night at the Aldwych Theatre in London. The critic notes, however, that in this interpretation the comic characters are presented less successfully than are the romantic characters.

Review of Twelfth Night. The Critic and Good Literature, No. 47 (12 November 1884):...

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22. Comparisons And Overviews
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