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Twelfth Night Full Play Summary. In the kingdom of Illyria, a nobleman named Orsino lies around listening to music, pining away for the love of Lady Olivia. He cannot have her because she is in mourning for her dead brother and refuses to entertain any proposals of marriage.
- Act V: Scene I
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- Plot Analysis
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- Themes
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- Act I, Scenes I–Ii
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- Act Iv: Scenes I–Iii
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- Desire and Love
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- Act Ii: Scene V
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- Act V: Scene I
Oct 8, 2019 · Plot summary of Twelfth Night. Act 1. The play opens with the Duke of Illyria, Orsino, pining away with love for Olivia, a countess whose father died a year ago and whose brother has recently died. Olivia has vowed to shut herself away from society for seven years as a result of these deaths.
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An Introduction to This Text: Twelfth Night. By Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. Editors of the Folger Shakespeare Library Editions. Twelfth Night, or, What You Will was first printed in the 1623 collection of Shakespeare’s plays now known as the First Folio.
Go you, Malvolio: if it be a suit from the count, I am sick, or not at home; what you will, to dismiss it. 400 [Exit MALVOLIO] Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and people dislike it. Feste. Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest son should be a fool; whose skull Jove cram with 405
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