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Jul 31, 2015 · 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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Captain. True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance, 55. Assure yourself, after our ship did split, When you and those poor number saved with you. Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself, Courage and hope both teaching him the practise, 60.
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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.
DUKE ORSINO's palace. Orsino. If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!
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Enter SIR TOBY BELCH (1.5.116) — Sir Toby Belch, half-drunk, delivers the news that there's someone at the gate. Olivia asks him who it is, but all Sir Toby knows is that it's a gentleman. Olivia asks Sir Toby how he came to be drunk, but Sir Toby is too drunk to give a coherent answer, and leaves.
