Twelfth Night: A User's Guide

by Michael Pennington

Overview

'As good a guide to Twelfth Night as you can get' Richard Eyre

This serious yet lively book offers an intensely practical account of the way Twelfth Night actually works on stage.

Drawing both on his inside knowledge as a director of the play and on his lifelong experience as a Shakespearian actor, Pennington takes the reader through Twelfth Night scene by detailed scene.

'He is sharply intelligent, scrupulously careful, hugely knowledgeable and above all, wonderfully readable' Peter Holland, The Shakespeare Institute

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780019178
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	08/10/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	260
File size:	564 KB

About the Author

Michael Pennington is a British actor, director and writer. He has played a variety of leading roles in the West End, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, for the National Theatre and for the English Shakespeare Company, of which he was co-founder and joint Artistic Director from 1986-1992. He has also directed several of Shakespeare's plays, and is the author of books on Hamlet, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, amongst others. He has toured his solo shows, Sweet William and Anton Chekhov, throughout the world.

Editorial Reviews

Michael Pennington's Twelfth Night: A User's Guide takes the reader through one of Shakespeare's best loved and most frequently performed comedies, scene by detailed scene. Pennington reveals the play's themes, connections, characters, and individual lines in a sharp and telling focus as he offers an intensely practical account of the way the play actually works on a stage. Twelfth Night: A User's Guide is profoundly recommended reading for anyone aspiring to produce, direct, or perform in this classic Shakespeare comedy whether in school or community theater.