Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, of What You Will, was written in or at the end of Christmastide. It is a comedy intended as entertainment at the end of the holiday season. The play is set in Illyria, and follows the story of the twins Viola and Sebastian. The beginning of the play finds Viola shipwrecked on the Illyrian coast and helped to shore by the captain. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around –02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centers on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck.4/5(K). Twelfth Night. The tale of a young woman who disguises herself as a man and becomes entangled in the courtship of two local aristocrats upends conventions of romance and gender roles. First staged in , Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s most performed plays. Read a character analysis of Viola, plot summary, and important quotes.
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, or What You Will; Twelfth Night, or What You Will. In Context. The Shakespearean Theater; The Swan Theatre Titus Andronicus in Performance The Plot of an Elizabethan Play Early Editions of Shakespeare's Plays ; Twelfth Night Performance and Sources; from John Manningham, Diary (2 February ). Exploring themes of love, gender, and identity, William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", (or What You Will) was first performed in England in and first published in after Shakespeare's death."Twelfth Night" takes its title from the twelfth night of Christmas, a raucous holiday marked with feasting and entertainment. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare - Free Ebook. Project Gutenberg. 66, free ebooks. by William Shakespeare.
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, of What You Will, was written in or at the end of Christmastide. It is a comedy intended as entertainment at the end of the holiday season. The play is set in Illyria, and follows the story of the twins Viola and Sebastian. The beginning of the play finds Viola shipwrecked on the Illyrian coast and helped to shore by the captain. Twelfth Night, or What You Will was written between and The earliest reference to a performance appears in the diary of barrister John Manningham who in February recorded that the play was acted in the Middle Temple “at our feast.”. Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's liveliest and most accessible romantic comedies - but also deals intelligently with issues of gender, sexual desire, class and social harmony. The enchanting story of Viola dressed as the page Cesario, with whom both Orsino and Orsino's erstwhile object of desire fall in love, is filled with rapturous poetry that articulates love, desire and romantic melancholy.
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