Twelfth Night (Arden Shakespeare)
By Unknown Author.
Description
The story which furnishes the plot of this comedy is to be found in various degrees of development in the writings of various Italian and French novelists and dramatists of the sixteenth century. Of these a comedy called GV I ngannati (T he Mistaken Ones), first printed in 1537, by an unknown author, is most like Twelfth Night, to which, indeed, it corresponds in plot almost point for point. Such knowledge, however, as Shakespeare had of GV I ngannati was, we may be sure, through some English translation, or some play founded upon it, which has been lost. The principal serious incidents of ...
ISBN(s)
0416179606, 9780416179606
