Special Introduction to the play by Herschel Baker, Harvard University

General discussion of [Shakespeare’s life, and theater by the general editor world, of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University

Source from which Shakespeare derived Twelfth Night-Barnabe Rich: Of Apolonius and Silla

Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Harley Granville- Barker, John Dover Wilson, Linda Bamber, Robert Kimbrough

A new, comprehensive stage history of notable actors, directors, and productions of Twelfth Night, then and now Text and commentaries printed in the clearest,

most readable type

Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text