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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Twelfth Night. Find out more about the shipwreck that separates twins Viola and Sebastian and the resulting love story.
A young, aristocratic-born woman named Viola is swept onto the Illyrian shore. Finding herself alone in a strange land, she assumes that her twin brother, Sebastian, has been drowned in the wreck, and tries to figure out what sort of work she can do.
knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer. 130; Sir Toby Belch. Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek? Maria. Ay, he. Sir Toby Belch. He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria. Maria. What's that to the purpose? Sir Toby Belch. Why, he has three thousand ducats a year. 135; Maria. Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats:
Mar 29, 2024 · David Bevington. Twelfth Night, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1600–02 and printed in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of an authorial draft or possibly a playbook. One of Shakespeare’s finest comedies, Twelfth Night precedes the great tragedies and problem plays in order of.
Twelfth Night is a play about desire’s power to override conventions of class, religion, and even gender. Several characters begin the play believing they want one thing, only to have love teach them they actually want something else. Orsino thinks he wants Olivia, until he falls in love with Viola (dressed as Cesario.)
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