"Twelfth Night" or "What you Will"; mad days; temple connections; the greasy pole; revellers all; the Mermaid Club; what's in a name? sources; postscript: "Troilus and Cressida"; skeleton argument; the original performance. Appendices: later performances; the revels of 1597/8.
Anthony Arlidge is well known as a senior barrister and Queen's Counsel at the Middle Temple in London, where he is Master of the Entertainments, and he is the co-author of standard textbooks on contempt of court and fraud. He has long had an interest in the theatre, and in 1998 he directed the performance of a highly successful new version that he edited of the Inn's 1597/8 festivities in the Middle Temple Hall, taking part himself. The Globe Theatre put on a special production of Twelfth Night in the Middle Temple Hall in 2002 to celebrate the quatercentenary of the first performance there in 1602.
'...[his book] is important not because it shows that Twelfth Night was first performed at the Middle Temple but because it demonstates the close links between Shakespeare and the Inns. If it was specially commissioned by the Inns it has all sorts of ramifications for other plays, including Troilus and Cressida...' Professor Anne Barton, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
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