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Oxford Literature Companions: Twelfth Night
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Book Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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