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  1. www.litcharts.com › lit › twelfth-nightTwelfth Night Character Analysis | LitCharts

    Sir Toby. Olivia's vulgar uncle, a drunkard, lives at and leeches off of her house. Sir Toby's crass double entendres and sex jokes offer an earthy contrast to Orsino 's flowery love-poetry, and his antics help to overthrow Malvolio's efforts to impose order. Sir Toby eventually marries Olivia's lady-in-waiting, Maria .

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      Viola's twin brother, whom she believes is lost at sea, and...

    • Viola (Cesario)

      The protagonist of Twelfth Night.An aristocratic woman, she...

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    Lower down this page is the complete text of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Download the complete Twelfth Night PDF – Shakespeare’s original text. (Free) Download a modern English version of Twelfth Night. ( $14.95) Read Twelfth Night online as either original text or the modern English version. ( Free)

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  4. www.sparknotes.com › twelfthnight › plot-analysisTwelfth Night: Full Play Analysis | SparkNotes

    Full Play Analysis. 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.)

  5. www.litcharts.com › lit › twelfth-nightTwelfth Night Study Guide | Literature Guide | LitCharts

    Feast of Misrule: Twelfth Night takes its name from an English holiday celebrated on January 5, the so-called "twelfth night of Christmas" or the Eve of the Feast of the Epiphany. In Renaissance England, Twelfth Night was known as a "feast of misrule." For the day, kings and nobles were to be treated as peasants, and peasants as kings and nobles.

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  7. www.owleyes.org › text › twelfth-nightTwelfth Night Full Text and Analysis - Owl Eyes

    Twelfth Night. When Shakespeare composed Twelfth Night; or What You Will between 1600 and 1601, he used many of the characteristics common to Elizabethan romantic comedies—mistaken identity, separated twins, gender-crossing, and disguise. While the plot utilizes common tropes to tell a story about overcoming the obstacles to "true" love ...

  8. www.sparknotes.com › twelfthnight › charactersTwelfth Night: Character List | SparkNotes

    Read an in-depth analysis of Antonio. A list of all the characters in Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night characters include: Viola, Orsino and Olivia, Malvolio, Sir Toby, Maria, Sebastian, Antonio.

  9. www.rsc.org.uk › twelfth-night › characterTwelfth Night Detailed Character Information | Shakespeare ...

    In Shakespeare’s time, a woman of Olivia’s social status would have been expected to marry to form the right alliances rather than for love. Orsino is described throughout the play as an attractive, wealthy and decent man, but Olivia is confident in her rejection of him. Instead she falls desperately in love with Orsino’s young servant ...