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Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays (Shakespeare Criticism)

por James Schiffer

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This volume in the Shakespeare Criticism series offers a range of approaches to TwelfthNight, including its critical reception, performance history, and relation to early modern culture. James Schiffer's extensive introduction surveys the play's critical reception and performance history, while individual essays explore a variety of topics relevant to a full appreciation of the play: early modern notions of love, friendship, sexuality, madness, festive ritual, exoticism, social mobility, and detection. The contributors approach these topics from a variety of perspectives, such as new critical, new historicist, cultural materialist, feminist and queer theory, and performance criticism, occasionally combining several approaches within a single essay. The new essays from leading figures in the field explore and extend the key debates surrounding Twelfth Night, creating the ideal book for readers approaching this text for the first time or wishing to further their knowledge of this stimulating, much loved play.… (mais)
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Can't review, since I'm among its authors. My contribution concerns material and ritual Renaissance culture in the play, "'What he wills': Early Modern Rings and Vows in TN." I start with the fact that Renaissance rings did not distinguish, physically, between engagement and marriage. One marriage ring in Italy bears a helmet. Diamonds became standard really after DeBeers' expansion in the late 19C, and gems only in the 18C, often from India. Moreover, the Church courts (or "Bawdy Courts") of Shakespeare's day did distinguish between a contracted marriage (with a clear present tense verb, not the ambiguous, "I will"--I meaning I so will it, but suggesting future tense) and an agreement to marry. And a ring did not suffice; it depended entirely upon what was said during the ring exchange. No witness was required if both parties agreed, but... The case would not be in court then, would it.
So witnesses were required, who often could not testify to the tense of the verb: that's why we have the verb "do" in answer to "WILT thou John have this lady Judy to be thy wife?"
I think Prof Schiffer has done a thorough job of researching previous scholarship and placing
our essays in historic and critical context. This should stead him well in his function as the editor
of the variorum Twelfth Night. ( )
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This volume in the Shakespeare Criticism series offers a range of approaches to TwelfthNight, including its critical reception, performance history, and relation to early modern culture. James Schiffer's extensive introduction surveys the play's critical reception and performance history, while individual essays explore a variety of topics relevant to a full appreciation of the play: early modern notions of love, friendship, sexuality, madness, festive ritual, exoticism, social mobility, and detection. The contributors approach these topics from a variety of perspectives, such as new critical, new historicist, cultural materialist, feminist and queer theory, and performance criticism, occasionally combining several approaches within a single essay. The new essays from leading figures in the field explore and extend the key debates surrounding Twelfth Night, creating the ideal book for readers approaching this text for the first time or wishing to further their knowledge of this stimulating, much loved play.

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