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Jul 31, 2015 · Characters in the Play ; Entire Play 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. Viola goes into service with Count ...
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This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: 1295 He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, cheque at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art 1300 For folly that he wisely shows is fit;
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The play explores themes of love, deception, and mistaken identity, and features memorable characters such as the witty and mischievous Sir Toby Belch, the fool Feste, and the self-important Malvolio. With its complex plot and humorous dialogue, Twelfth Night remains a popular and widely performed play to this day.
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. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
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!
The full title of the play is Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Subtitles for plays were fashionable in the Elizabethan era , and though some editors place The Merchant of Venice ' s alternative title, The Jew of Venice , as a subtitle, this is the only Shakespeare play to bear one when first published.
