| Twelfth Night: Language and Writing Contributor(s): Dolan, Frances E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472518349 ISBN-13: 9781472518347 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $89.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare - Drama | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 2014010206 |
| Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.65 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Frances E. Dolan examines the puzzling pronouns and puns, the love poetry, mischief, and disguises of Twelfth Night, exploring its themes of grief, obsessive love, social climbing and gender identity, and helping you towards your own close-readings. |
Contributor Bio(s): Callaghan, Dympna: - Dympna Callaghan is Dean's Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University and works on early modern English Literature. She has held fellowships at the Newberry, Folger, and Huntington Libraries, has been a British Academy Visiting Professor and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. She is an active member of the interdisciplinary Syracuse University Medieval-Renaissance group of faculty and graduate students. Her books include editions of Shakespeare's The Duchess of Malfi, The Taming of the Shrew and Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as Shakespeare Without Women, Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy, and Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies.Dolan, Frances E.: - Frances E. Dolan is an expert on the literature and culture of England from 1500-1700 and an award-winning teacher. Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, she has also taught at Miami University, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. Her textbook, The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts (1996), continues to be taught widely, as do the five plays she has edited. In addition, Dolan is the author of four scholarly books, most recently True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England (2013), as well as numerous articles in journals and collections. A former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, she has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (at the Newberry and Folger libraries), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and, most recently, the Huntington Library, where she was a Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellow. |