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Article: Twelfth Night: A Guide to the Play.(Book review)
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- Shakespeare Bulletin
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- September 22, 2006
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Twelfth Night: A Guide to the Play. By John R. Ford. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 2006. Pp. xiv + 200. $95.00.
As John R. Ford emphasizes in Twelfth Night: A Guide to the Play, "Twelfth Night is, above all, a play about playing" (xii). "[T]he illusion of textual authority we look for, whether in modern editions or in their quarto and folio antecedents, is actually no more than the record of myriad and contesting performance choices" (x). A significant and pleasing dimension of his book lies in its examination of those choices, particularly as they illuminate issues central to academic criticism--gender, sexual identity, social mobility, tonal ...