Which Shakespeare play has the subtitle ‘What you will’?
Subtitle (titling) proper. Subtitles for plays were fashionable in the Elizabethan era; William Shakespeare parodied this vogue by giving "Twelfth Night" his only subtitle, the deliberately uninformative "What You Will", implying that the subtitle can be whatever the audience wants it to be. In printing, subtitles often appear below the title in a less prominent typeface or following the title after a colon. Some modern publishers choose to forgo subtitles when republishing historical works, such as Shelley's famous story, which is often now sold simply as "Frankenstein". In library cataloging the subtitle does not include an alternate title which is defined as
What You Will boy pages. "What You Will" was one of the plays involved in the War of the Theatres in 1599–1601. The character Lampatho Doria is generally thought to represent Ben Jonson, Marston's opponent in the controversy, while Quadratus may stand in for Marston himself. What You Will What You Will is a late Elizabethan comedy by John Marston, written in 1601 and probably performed by the Children of Paul's, one of the companies of boy actors popular in that period. The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 6 August 1607, and was published later that year in a quarto