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Actually understand Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 3. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.
Actually understand Twelfth Night Act 2, Scene 3. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.
Twelfth Night in Modern English, Act 1, Scene 1: ‘If music be the food of love, play on!’ Orsino, the young Duke of Illyria, sighed. He was in the mood for music. He was in love and the music was like food, fuelling his feelings. He sat in the garden...
Actually understand Twelfth Night Act 5, Scene 1. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.
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.
O she that hath a heart of that fine frame. 1.1.33 40To pay this debt of love but to a brother,. 1.1.34 41How will she love, when the rich golden shaft
Click on any scene below for a side-by-side translation from the original Shakespeare into modern English. Act 1, Scene 1 Hanging out in his court in Illyria, the moody Duke Orsino listens to the live band he keeps around on retainer and talks about love.
