Twelfth Night (1922) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Twelfth Night (Shakespeare).

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TWELFTH NIGHT, OR
WHAT YOU WILL

 

EDITED BY
GEORGE HENRY NETTLETON

 

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXXII

 

Copyright, 1922
By Yale University Press

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First published, January, 1922

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
⁠Act I	1
⁠Act II	23
⁠Act III	46
⁠Act IV	72
⁠Act V	82
Notes	98
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	105
Appendix B. The History of the Play	112
Appendix C. The Text	117
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	119
Index of Words Glossed	120

 

The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of an early edition, in the Yale University Library, of the comedy of 'Gl' Ingannati,' originally performed during a Sienese carnival (1531) by the literary society of the Intronati. This play first combined in a significant degree the essential elements in the plot of 'Twelfth Night.' See Appendix A.

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society