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Oxford Literature Companions: Twelfth Night
Peter Buckroyd
Oxford Literature Companions: Twelfth Night
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Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role, genre, context, language, themes, structure, performance and critical views, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work with the text. Each book also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.

Language
English
ISBN
9780198419570
Front Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Plot and Structure
Plot
Structure
Context
The literary sources of the play
Puritanism
The clash between carnival and Lent
The Petrarchan lover
Gender and sexuality
Genre
Twelfth Night as a comedy
Characterization and Roles
Viola
Orsino
Olivia
Sebastian and Antonio
Feste
Malvolio
Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Maria
Language
The language of courtly love
Poetic language
Dramatic irony
Imagery
Playing with language
Song
Themes
Love
Desire and sexuality
Deception
Madness and wisdom
Cruelty and death
Performance
Performance history
Metatheatricality
Performing character
Performing gender and sexuality
Film versions of the play
Critical Views
Reading approaches
Beginning to apply critical views
Interpreting character
Interpreting comedy
Interpreting narrative
Developing your own readings
Skills and Practice
Exam skills
Planning and structuring an answer
Sample questions
Sample answers
Writing about extracts
Glossary
Back Cover
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