William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night

C. L. Barber included Twelfth Night in his definition of festive world , as its title refers to the Feast of the Epiphany, but more modern criticism has seen it as a staple text for gendered, psycho-analytic, metadramatic readings. The present study was envisaged as a scene-by-scene, close reading of the play, in the course of which several essential issues aesthetic, dramatic, ideological are clarified. Particular focus is paid to the mythic dimensions of the text as well as to the various forms and complex functions of language.