Twelfth Night
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Twelfth Night is a comedy that makes reference to the Eve of the Feast of Epiphany, which comes 12 nights after Christmas. In Shakespeare's time, it was a Catholic holiday that was transformed into a celebration full of partying, with people dressing up as the opposite sex and servants dressing up like their masters. This theme is used to advance the plot of Shakespeare's comedy to reach the ending.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.
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Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
TWELFTH NIGHT
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William Shakespeare
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Twelfth Night
Characters of the Play
Act I
Scene I. Duke Orsino’s palace.
Scene II. The sea-coast.
Scene III. Olivia’s house.
Scene IV. Duke Orsino’s palace.
Scene V. Olivia’s house.
Act II
Scene I. The sea-coast.
Scene II. A street.
Scene III. Olivia’s house.
Scene IV. Duke Orsino’s palace.
Scene V. Olivia’s garden.
Act III
Scene I. Olivia’s garden.
Scene II. Olivia’s house.
Scene III. A street.
Scene IV. Olivia’s garden.
Act IV
Scene I. Before Olivia’s house.
Scene II. Olivia’s house.
Scene III. Olivia’s garden.
Act V
Scene I. Before Olivia’s house.
Twelfth Night
By
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
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First published 1602
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TWELFTH NIGHT
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CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY
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Orsino, Duke of Illyria.
Sebastian, brother to Viola.
Antonio, a sea captain, friend to Sebastian.
A Sea Captain, friend to Viola.
Valentine and Curio, gentlemen attending on the Duke.
Sir Toby Belch, uncle to Olivia.
Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
Malvolio, steward to Olivia.
Fabian and Feste, a Clown, servants to Olivia.
Olivia.
Viola.
Maria, Olivia’s woman.
Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants.
Scene: A city in Illyria, and the sea-coast near it.
ACT I
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SCENE I. DUKE ORSINO’S PALACE.
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Enter Duke Orsino, Curio, and other Lords; Musicians attending
Duke Orsino
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
’Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe’er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.
Curio
Will you go hunt, my lord?
Duke Orsino
What, Curio?
Curio
The hart.
Duke Orsino
Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
That instant was I turn’d into a hart;
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E’er since pursue me.
Enter Valentine
How now! what news from her?
Valentine
So please my lord, I might not be admitted;
But from her handmaid do return this answer:
The element itself, till seven years’ heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view;
But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk
And water once a day her chamber round
With eye-offending brine: all this to season
A brother’s dead love, which she would keep fresh
And lasting in her sad remembrance.
Duke Orsino
O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
How will she love, when the rich golden shaft
Hath kill’d the flock of all affections else
That live in her; when liver, brain and heart,
These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill’d
Her sweet perfections with one self king!
Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:
Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.
Exeunt
SCENE II. THE SEA-COAST.
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Enter Viola, a Captain, and Sailors
Viola
What country, friends, is this?
Captain
This is Illyria, lady.
Viola
And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drown’d: what think you, sailors?
Captain
It is perchance that you yourself were saved.
Viola
O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.
Captain
True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance,
Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
When you and those poor number saved with you
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
Most provident in peril, bind himself,
Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,
To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;
Where, like Arion on the dolphin’s back,
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
So long as I could see.
Viola
For saying so, there’s gold:
Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,
Whereto thy speech serves for authority,
The like of him. Know’st thou this country?
Captain
Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born
Not three hours’ travel from this very place.
Viola
Who governs here?
Captain
A noble duke, in nature as in name.
Viola
What is the name?
Captain
Orsino.
Viola
Orsino! I have heard my father name him:
He was a bachelor then.
Captain
And so is now, or was so very late;
For but a month ago I went from hence,
And then ’twas fresh in murmur — as, you know,
What great ones do the less will prattle of —
That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.
Viola
What’s she?
Captain
A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her
In the protection of his son, her brother,
Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,
They say, she hath abjured the company
And sight