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Article: The Trick of Singularity: 'Twelfth Night' and the Performance Editions.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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The Trick of Singularity: 'Twelfth Night' and the Performance Editions. By LAURIE E. OSBORNE. (Studies in Theatre History and Culture) Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 1996. xvii +206 pp. $32.95;[pound]30.95.
The middle part of this book contains interesting analyses of the various ways in which performance editions of Twelfth Night have re-interpreted the play. By transposing scenes, by cutting and rearrangement of material, the play could be better accommodated to nineteenth-century tastes. Suggestions of love, or what is now called homoeroticism, between Antonio and Sebastian, were removed, at some cost to coherence. Ensuring that Viola's femininity ...