William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Paperback - 2022)

This critical study of Twelfth Night aims at making the play more comprehensible to the common reader. It contains a scene-wise critical summary of the play and proceeds to an analysis of all the different elements of poetic drama. The views of renowned critics are given alongside the analyses, accompanied by copious citations from the text. These features make the book useful for the concerned students as well as teachers. A brief analysis according to Sanskrit dramaturgy has been included at the end, along with important questions, index and a select Bibliography. It will undoubtedly prove an important reference book.

Ratri Ray is a retired University Professor and the Head of the Department of English, Patna University. She obtained the Ph.D. and D.Litt. degrees in 1981 and 2002 respectively. Her studies of six Shakespearean plays according to the Rasavada had been serialised in the cultural periodical Mother India during the ’80s and the ’90s. A series of articles on the element of myth in Sri Aurobindo’s poetry, serialised during the late ’90s in Srnvantu, has been recently published in book form. At present she is contributing regularly to three cultural periodicals published from Kolkata, on the plays and poems of Sri Aurobindo. She has contributed numerous research articles to many cultural and literary periodicals. Her recently published book, William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (The Atlantic Critical Studies) has received over-whelming response from the readers.