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     • 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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   What is Twelfth Night about?

   • 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.)

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   How does Twelfth Night relate to love and power?

   • In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare plays with the intersections of love and power. The Countess Olivia is presented to us at the play’s beginning as an independent and powerful woman. The sudden deaths of her father and her brother have left her in charge of her own household and have thereby given her power over such male relatives as Sir Toby Belch.

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   When did Twelfth Night come out?

   • Twelfth Night appeared in print for the first time in the 1623 First Folio, and that text is the basis for all subsequent editions. First Folio (1623) Second Folio (1632) Read and download Twelfth Night for free. Learn about this Shakespeare play, find scene-by-scene summaries, and discover more Folger resources.

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   What makes Twelfth Night so enjoyable?

   • Yet what makes Twelfth Night so satisfying and impressive, as well as entertaining, is its clear-eyed acknowledgment of the challenge to its merriment in the counterforces of grief, melancholy, and sterile self-enclosure that stand in the way of the play’s joyous affirmation.

   Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

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   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.)

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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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   Shakespeare in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe 161 "odorous souls" and the "violet bank" (11. 13, 17) are far more meaningful in terms of a passage of Twelfth Night (no. 169).

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   About Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. By Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. Editors of the Folger Shakespeare Library Editions. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare plays with the intersections of love and power.

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    Nov 13, 2014 · The spelling of Shakespeare's name was not yet standardized in Poe's day, hence Poe's use of “Shakspeare,” without the “e” following the “k.”. Mabbott comments that these notes are probably from about 1829 ( Poems, 1969, p. xxvi, note 6) though without explanation. These 73 extracts appear to have been first printed by Burton Pollin ...

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    Jul 26, 2020 · Twelfth Night is the climax of Shakespeare’s early achievement in comedy. The effects and values of the earlier comedies are here subtly embodied in the most complex structure which Shakespeare had yet created. But the play also looks forward: the pressure to dis-solve the comedy, to realize and finally abandon the burden of laughter, is…