Introduction / Harold Bloom --
Biography of William Shakespeare --
Summary of Twelfth Night - Key passages in Twelfth Night --
List of characters in Twelfth Night --
Criticism throughout the ages --
Twelfth Night in the seventeenth century --
From his Diary, February 2 / John Manningham 1601 --
From The diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys 1663 --
Twelfth Night in the eighteenth century --
"The fable of Twelfth-Night, or What you will," from Shakespear Illustrated, or the Novels and histories on which the plays of Shakespeare are founded / Charlotte Lennox 1753 --
From "Notes on Twelfth Night, of What you will," from The plays of William Shakespear / Samuel Johnson 1765 --
"Twelfth Night : or, What you will," from The morality of Shakespeare's drama Illustrated / Elizabeth Griffith 1775 --
Twelfth Night in the nineteenth century --
"Twelfth Night : or, What you will," from Characters of Shakespear's plays / William Hazlitt 1817 --
From On some of the old actors / Charles Lamb 1823 --
From "viola," from Shakespeare's heroines : characteristics of women, moral, poetical, & historical / Anna Jameson 1833 --
From The pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere 1839 --
From The Illustrated Shakespeare / G.C. Verplanck
From Wit, humor, and Shakespeare /
Twelfth Night ; or, What you will, from Shakespeare's dramatic art : history and character of Shakespeare's plays (third edition) / Hermann Ulrici 1876 --
From "Introduction to the play," from The Leopold Shakespere 1877 --
"Notes and introduction to Twelfth Night; or, What you will," from The works of William Shakespeare (The Henry Irving Shakespeare) / Arthur Symons 1894 --
"Twelfth Night," from William Shakespeare : a critical study / Georg Brandes 1898 --
Twelfth Night in the twentieth century --
"Introduction to Twelfth Night," from The complete works of William Shakespeare / Maurice Hewlett 1907 --
"The organic unity of Twelfth Night," from PMLA / Morris P. Tilley 1914 --
"Character of Viola," from Shakespeare on the stage / William Winter 1915 --
"Feste the jester," from A book of homage to Shakespeare / A.C. Bradley 1916 --
"The Illyrians," from The English comic characters / J.B. Priestley 1925 --
From "The romantic comedies," from The Shakespearian Tempest / G. Wilson Knight 1932 --
"Twelfth Night," from The meaning of Shakespeare / Harold C. Goddard 1951 --
"The design of Twelfth Night," from Shakespeare Quarterly / Leo Salingar 1958 --
"Testing courtesy and humanity in Twelfth Night," from Shakespeare's festive comedy / C.L. Barber 1959 --
From "Shakespeare's bitter Arcadia," from Shakespeare our contemporary / Jan Kott 1966 --
"Introduction," from Twelfth Night (Chelsea House) / Harold Bloom 1987 --
Twelfth Night in the twenty-first century --
From "Last scene of all : retirement from the theatre," from Shakespeare : an introduction / David Bevington 2002 --
"Twelfth Night, gender, and comedy," from Early modern English drama : a critical companion / R.W. Maslen 2006 --
