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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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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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For teachers. Early printed texts. Introduction to the play. Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino.
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. (1599) Scenes. (18 total) Complete Text. Act I. Scene 1. DUKE ORSINO’s palace. Scene 2.
Reliable, thoroughly annotated text of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, with scene summaries linked to the text.
Enough; no more: 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity. Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy.
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