Ebook: Twelfth Night: Character Studies

The characters of Twelfth Night are both memorableand engaging and it is through their funny, and attimes bitter, interplay that we experience thepeculiar world of Shakespeare's Illyria. This studybegins with a introduction to the concept of"characters" on the early-modern stage beforeproceeding to a textual analysis of each of themain characters in the play, looking at how whatthey say and do, and what is said about them,creates the illusion of "character". Each chapteralso contains a brief account of key performancesby actors on stage and in film.