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Penguin Critical Studies
Penguin, London 1993 |
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| In her study, Stevie Davies introduces the
dramatic action and considers the meaning of the play in terms
of its musicality and aestheticism. Further chapters explore
the 'Folly tradition'; language and Twelfth Night as
a play about and on language; Malvolio and the Puritans; and
the liberating comedy of sexual ambiguity. Illuminating reference
is made to Shakespeare's Sonnets. Lightness of touch
and a delight in language inform this reading of a comedy
in which the eternal conflict is that between ethical order
and comic disorder, and the elusive subject is desire. |
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