{"product_id":"twelfth-night-or-what-you-will-the-state-of-play-9781350456402","title":"Twelfth Night, or What You Will the State of Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Emma Smith | Ann Thompson | Lena Cowen Orlin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Arden Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Arden Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Shakespeare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night, or What You Will \u003c\/i\u003ethrough a variety of critical lenses.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion and unrequited love was a critical play for feminist readings and ideas related to cross-dressing, gender fluidity and relationships in the 1980s. Since then, it has been somewhat critically adrift. Smith's collection of essays resets the critical conversation that surrounds this play to a more contemporary idiom and provides an up-to-date reader for both professors and their students. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An interdisciplinary volume, this book gathers a range of voices and views in order to assess how transformative work on texts, identity and race has impacted \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night\u003c\/i\u003e's standing in current Shakespeare conversations. Scholars from across the globe utilize viewpoints stemming from transgender studies, environmental studies, racial studies and queer theory, in order to provide a present-day exploration of the play's critical framework, and stimulate future conversations that arise from recent adaptations and performance traditions from beyond the anglophone sphere.","brand":"Arden Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47592844263575,"sku":"9781350456402","price":10159.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350456402.webp?v=1774979554","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/twelfth-night-or-what-you-will-the-state-of-play-9781350456402","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}