This edition preserves the play text of Twelfth Night as it was edited and annotated by Elizabeth Story Donno for the first Cambridge edition of 1985. The second edition featured a completely new introduction by Penny Gay. For the third edition, Professor Gay further updates the introduction, taking into account recent substantial performance history, and providing a refreshed reading list for the contemporary student reader. Gay stresses the play's theatricality, its elaborate linguistic games and its complex use of Ovidian myths. She analyses the play's delicate balance between romance and...

This edition preserves the play text of Twelfth Night as it was edited and annotated by Elizabeth Story Donno for the first Cambridge edition of 1985. The second edition featured a completely new introduction by Penny Gay. For the third edition, Professor Gay further updates the introduction, taking into account recent substantial performance history, and providing a refreshed reading list for the contemporary student reader. Gay stresses the play's theatricality, its elaborate linguistic games and its complex use of Ovidian myths. She analyses the play's delicate balance between romance and...