Publisher's Synopsis
John H. Howard's artwork in Twelfth Night brings Shakespeare's comedy forward to a more modern era, with motorcycles, trams, automobiles, and a collage of twentieth century dress styles. The story is a convoluted farce, in which mistaken identity, comic duels, and outrageous characters stumble toward a hilarious finale in which all is eventually resolved and everybody gets what they want—if not what they deserve. Howard's somewhat grotesque images enhance the play's inherent absurdity, and his purplish-brown hues evoke burlesque conceptions of the imaginary Illyria.
