Twelfth Night. Content Group. Overview. (active tab) Images. Bibliography. Overview. Many critics, such as Stephen Booth, consider Twelfth Night Shakespeare's outstanding comic achievement, and it is usually very successful in performance. Recently critics have treated Malvolio's humiliation as close to tragic, and Orsino's affection for the "boy" Cesario/Viola as raising serious doubts about his . 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 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/5(K).
Title: Twelfth Night Author: William Shakespeare Release Date: November [EBook #] Last Updated: Janu Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWELFTH NIGHT *** This etext was produced by the PG Shakespeare Team, a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers. Analysis of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on J • (0). 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. Twelfth Night, in full Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about and printed in the First Folio of from a transcript of an authorial draft or possibly a playbook. One of Shakespeare's finest comedies, Twelfth Night precedes the great tragedies and problem plays in order of composition.
Twelfth Night. 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. Meanwhile, off the coast, a storm has caused a terrible shipwreck. 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 Summary. Viola, separated from her twin Sebastian, dresses as a boy and works for the Duke Orsino, whom she falls in love with. Orsino is in love with the Countess Olivia, and sends Viola to court her for him, but Olivia falls for Viola instead. Sebastian arrives, causing a flood of mistaken identity, and marries Olivia.
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