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Jul 31, 2015 · Contents. Synopsis: Twelfth Night —an allusion to the night of festivity preceding the Christian celebration of the Epiphany—combines love, confusion, mistaken identities, and joyful discovery. After the twins Sebastian and Viola survive a shipwreck, neither knows that the other is alive.
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Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. (complete text) print/save view. Play menu. Act I, Scene 1. DUKE ORSINO’s palace. next scene. [Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending] Orsino. If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
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The text of the Twelfth Night script is very long, so we have separated the play into its original Acts and Scenes. Click on the appropriate links below to read Shakespeare’s script of Twelfth Night, or Twelfth Night translated into simple, modern English:
William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night is a comedic play that follows the story of twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola, disguised as a man named Cesario, begins working for Duke Orsino and falls in love with him, but he is in love with Olivia.
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rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three souls out of one weaver? shall we do that?
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. (1599) Scene 1. DUKE ORSINO’s palace. Scene 2. The sea-coast. Scene 3. OLIVIA’S house. Scene 4.
