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. Maria and Sir Toby have already married in celebration of the success of their plot against the steward. The play ends as Orsino approves the union between Olivia and Sebastian. Realising his own attraction to 'Cesario', Orsino promises that once Viola is dressed as a woman again, they will be married as well. Twelfth Night or What You Will Paperback – January 1, by William Shakespeare (Author), Alan Durband (Editor) › Visit Amazon's Alan Durband Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Alan Durband (Editor)/5(51).
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy about a cross-dressing, ship-wreck surviving, poetry-loving girl who finds herself at the center of a not-so-average love triangle. Written between 16(right around the same time Shakespeare wrote Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida), the play is most famous today for being a so-called "Transvestite Comedy" (which just. Twelfth Night is the ninth in a series of comedies Shakespeare wrote during the s that includes The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and As You Like It and is a masterful synthesis of them all, unsurpassed in the artistry of its execution. Overview. 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 www.doorway.ruh Night takes its title from the twelfth night of Christmas, a raucous holiday marked with feasting and entertainment. The subtitle What You Will refers to freedom or a lack of.
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. 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 is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around – as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with the Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with Countess Olivia.
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