Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations of Twelfth Night. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

———. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.

Booth, Stephen. “Twelfth Night 1.1: The Audience as Malvolio.” In Shakespeare’s Rough Magic: Essays in Honor of C. L. Barber, ed. Peter Erickson and Coppélia Kahn. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985. 149–167.

Gay, Penny. “Twelfth Night: Desire and Its Discontents.” In As She Likes It: Shakespeare’s Unruly Women. London: Routledge, 1994. 17–47.

Greenblatt, Stephen, gen. ed. The Norton Shakespeare (Based on the Oxford Edition). New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.

King, Walter N., ed. Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Twelfth Night. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1968.

Leggatt, Alexander. Twelfth Night: Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love. London: Methuen, 1974.

Wells, Stanley, ed. Twelfth Night: Critical Essays. New York: Garland, 1986.

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