∵ The Yale Shakespeare ∵
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
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
Edited by
Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke
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
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