Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night Criticism

• Twelfth Night Literary Criticism (Vol. 62)
  • Introduction
  • Twelfth Night
  • The Dramaturgy of the Ending of Twelfth Night
  • Criticism: Gender Issues
    • Twins and Travesties: Gender, Dependency and Sexual Availability in Twelfth Night
    • Anxieties of Intimacy: Twelfth Night
  • Criticism: Plot And Subplot
    • The Underplot of Twelfth Night
    • Double Plotting in Shakespeare's Comedies: The Case of Twelfth Night
  • Further Reading
• Twelfth Night Literary Criticism (Vol. 74)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Malvolio's Fall
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • Twelfth Night: Helen Hunt Isn't Its Only Star
    • Pastoral Shakespeare
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • Reflections on Sex, Shakespeare and Nostalgia in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night
    • Cutting up Characters: The Erotic Politics of Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night.
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Twelfth Night and the Meaning of Shakespearean Comedy
    • The Fertile Eunuch: Twelfth Night, Early Modern Intercourse, and the Fruits of Castration
    • Secrecy and Gossip in Twelfth Night
    • Gulls, Cony-Catchers and Cozeners: Twelfth Night and the Elizabethan Underworld
    • ‘Comfortable Doctrine’: Twelfth Night and the Trinity
  • Further Reading
• Twelfth Night Literary Criticism (Vol. 85)
  • Introduction
  • Shakespeare's Poetical Character in Twelfth Night
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • What You Will?
    • The Perspective of Comedy: Shakespeare's Pointers in Twelfth Night.
    • Viola, Antonio, and Epiphany in Twelfth Night
    • The Problem of Malvolio
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • Review of Twelfth Night
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Twelfth Night: Folly's Talents and the Ethics of Shakespearean Comedy
    • Twelfth Night: The Limits of Festivity
    • The Principle of Recompense in Twelfth Night.
    • ‘Here I Am … Yet Cannot Hold This Visible Shape’: The Music of Gender in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
  • Further Reading
• Twelfth Night Literary Criticism (Vol. 26)
  • Introduction
  • Reviews And Retrospective Accounts Of Selected Productions
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Twelfth Night at the Lyceum
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Twelfth Night
    • Irving as Malvolio
    • 6th Lyceum Season: Malvolio
    • Foreign Visitors and the New Realism
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Augustin Daly and the Shakespeare Comedies
    • A Review of Twelfth Night
    • Or What You Will
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Fiddling While Rome Burns
    • A Great while ago the world began
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • What You Will
    • Shakespeare in the Waterloo Road
    • Twelfth Night
    • Reviews And Retrospective Accounts Of Selected Productions
  • Background:
  • Commentary:
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Matter for a May Morning
    • The Stratford Opening
    • A review of Twelfth Night
  • Background:
  • Commentary:
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Master Hamlet and Saint Viola
    • Canada's Permanent Elizabethan Theatre
  • Background:
  • Commentary:
    • Stratford Razzmatazz
    • Taking Liberties
    • Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Grave and Gay
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Twelfth Night
  • Background:
  • Commentary:
    • Twelfth Night without Pathos
    • Another Playwright Misunderstood
    • Cakes, Ale and Soup
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • All Styles Go
    • A review of Twelfth Night
  • Background:
  • Commentary:
    • "Twelfth Night" as Seen by a Fool
    • Morally Superior
    • Nightfall
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Austerity and Sensitivity
    • Sad Party
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Interpretation or Experience? Shakespeare at Stratford
    • Malvolio in Twelfth Night
  • Background:
  • Commentary:
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Turning away from the Mirror
    • Cakes and Ale
    • Reflections
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Please yourself
    • Night of Misrule in the Kingdom of Self-love
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Kathleen Widdoes Shines in Ontario Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Illyria Follies
    • Glandular Fever
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • Twelfth Night: By the Circle Repertory
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Lindsay's Night
    • Two Twelfth Nights: New Haven and New York
  • Production:
    • The Illusions and Frenzies of Love
    • Vengeance is Mine, Says the Clown
    • A Wrangle for a Ring
    • Twelfth Night: Stratford-Upon-Avon
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Lost World
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • Viola in Twelfth Night
    • An Actor Prepares for Malvolio
    • Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' in Central Park
    • Slapstick 'Twelfth Night' with F. Murray Abraham
    • Acts of Darkness
    • Thirteenth Night
    • The Problems of Paternity
    • Acting Out Illyria
    • Sher Madness
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Twelfth Night
    • Modern Dress, Old Hat
    • Surprisingly Lively Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Frosty Festivity
    • In Festive Spirit
    • Great 'Night' Out
    • Melancholy Pleasures
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • The Sun Returns to Illyria
    • Operatic Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • Not a Night to Remember
    • Clear as Day
    • No Tricks in Plain and Simple Faith
    • Plain-Speaking in Illyria
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • Review of Twelfth Night
    • Judged Almost to Perfection
    • A review of Twelfth Night
    • A Warm Glow All Round
    • Production:
  • Comparisons And Overviews
    • An introduction to Twelfth Night
    • The Season of Twelfth Night
    • Twelfth Night: a Stage History
  • Staging Issues
    • Preface to Twelfth Night
    • Twelfth Night: Random Notes
    • The Comedies: Twelfth Night
    • A Note on a Production of Twelfth Night
    • Directions for Twelfth Night
    • An introduction to Twelfth Night, or, What You Will
    • Twelfth Night: The Experience of the Audience
  • Further Reading
• Malvolio and the Eunuchs: Texts and Revels in Twelfth Night
• Twelfth Night Literary Criticism (Vol. 34)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Twelfth Night
    • The Minor Characters in Twelfth Night
    • Twelfth Night: Free Disposition on the Sea of Love
  • Appearance Vs. Reality
    • Language and Reality in Twelfth Night
    • Shakespeare and Parmenides: Metaphysics of Twelfth Night
    • Disguise and Development: The Self and Society in Twelfth Night
    • Plays and Players in Twelfth Night
  • Relation To Elizabethan Culture
    • Twelfth Night
    • Slander in and Allow'd Fool: Twelfth Night's Crisis of the Aristocracy
  • Sexual Ambiguity
    • The Mythical Joys of Shakespeare, or, What You Will
    • On Not Being Deceived: Rhetoric and the Body in Twelfth Night
  • Further Reading
• On Not Being Deceived: Rhetoric and the Body in Twelfth Night
  • Introduction
  • 1. Circulating Arguments: The "Single Sex" Body
  • 2. "Nor are you therein, by my life, deceiv'd": Twelfth Night and Gl'Ingannati
• Double Dating in Twelfth Night
• Gender Trouble in Twelfth Night
  • Introduction
  • I. The Renaissance Context: "I, poor monster" (2.2.33)10
  • II. "I am the man" (2.2.24)
  • III. "I do adore thee so, / That danger shall seem sport" (2.1.46)
  • IV. "Thou hast put him in such a dream, that when the image of it leaves him he must run mad" (2.5.193-94)
• Twelfth Night Literary Criticism (Vol. 46)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Critical Commentary
    • Twelfth Night
  • Feste
    • Feste's 'Whirligig' and the Comic Providence of Twelfth Night
    • The Art of the Comic Duologue in Three Plays by Shakespeare
    • A Star is Born: Feste on the Modern Stage
  • Characterization
    • Viola: Dr. Johnson's 'Excellent Schemer'
    • 'Tis Not So Sweet as It Was Before': Orsino and Olivia in Twelfth Night
    • Malvolio and the Eunuchs: Text and Revels in Twelfth Night
  • Gender Issues
    • 'What You Will': Social Mobility and Gender in Twelfth Night
    • Shakespeare's Violation: 'One Face, One Voice, One Habit, and Two Persons'
    • Challenging Conventions: Twelfth Night
  • Further Reading