Category: Twelfth Night

It’s our first play, so let’s jump right in. Here is your video introduction to Twelfth Night, provided by Professor Murray Biggs.

Murray Biggs was born in England, raised in South Africa, and educated there and at Oxford. In 1986, after ten years’ teaching at MIT, he moved to Yale where he is now a semi-retired professor of English, Theater, and Film. He has published some 30 articles, many exploring the relations between text and performance, and directed over 40 stage productions, mostly with undergraduates, including 16 plays by Shakespeare, three of them twice. He lectures around the country on various aspects of drama.

More personally, Murray is my college professor and dear friend. Deepest thanks to him for agreeing to record the first introductory video for the Shakespeare 2020 Project.

Many thanks, also, to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

Thanks to members of our Shakespeare 2020 Project Facebook group for these additional Twelfth Night resources:

• Shakespeare magazine’s article from about a year ago on a unique production of Twelfth Night.
• A recipe for Twelfth Night cake from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
• The 1969 Twelfth Night, directed by John Sichel, is available in whole on YouTube.

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

Enjoy these Twelfth Night images from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.