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  Twelfth Night (holiday) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Twelfth Night is a holiday in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany, or Twelfth Day, and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany".
Twelfth Night is when all Christmas Decorations should be removed so as not to bring bad luck upon the home.
Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will was written to be performed as a Twelfth Night entertainment and first performed at Middle Temple Hall, London during the Twelfth Night celebrations of 1602 at the culmination of the celebrations, which was then at Candlemas, February 2.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twelfth_Night_(holiday)   (461 words)

  
 TWELFTH NIGHT
Twelfth Night was written between 1599Ñthe publication date of the Ônew map with the augmentation of the IndiesÕ referred to in 3.2.76-77Ñand late 1601, in time for the earliest recorded performance in February 1602.
Twelfth Night was performed at one of the Inns of Court on February 2, 1602, according to the diary of John Manningham.
The last scene [of Twelfth Night] is neither a still point of harmony nor a simple dying fall: it is the busiest, most complex scene in the play, as the private, magic happiness of the lovers vies for attention with the larger uncontrollable world of time inhabited by the clowns.
www.courttheatre.org /home/plays/0001/twelfth/PNtwelfth.shtml   (8198 words)

  
 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is one of the most commonly performed Shakesperean comedies, and was also successful during Shakespeare's lifetime.
Although the title of the play is Twelfth Night, it is not certain that this title means that the play takes place on the "Twelfth Night" itself, or the twelfth day after Christmas.
Several 16th century Italian plays with this name survive, and all of them with the same basic plot as Twelfth Night: a woman disguises herself as a page and woos a woman for her master, whom she loves, but the woman falls in love with her, and accidentally marries her twin brother.
www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/twelfth/about.html   (1031 words)

  
 Twelfth dynasty of Egypt: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The chronology of the Twelfth dynasty is the most stable of any period before the New Kingdom New Kingdom quick summary:
The pharaohs of the Twelfth dynasty are credited with the earliest known construction of a "Suez" Canal Suez Canal quick summary:
And it is during the Twelfth dynasty that we find the earliest examples of Egyptian literature.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tw/twelfth_dynasty_of_egypt.htm   (1775 words)

  
 Twelfth Night - The Holiday Time Forgot
Twelfth Night was a final frenzy of feasting, drinking and often-raucous merry making before the community returned to its daily working grind for the rest of the winter.
Twelfth Night was also the time for each household to conduct its ceremonial extinguishing of the Yule log.
Twelfth Night was a key feasting holiday in an era where food presentation itself was a primary entertainment.
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 Twelfth Air Force
The origins of Twelfth Air Force can be traced back to a series of meetings conducted in mid-1942 when Allied planners were developing a strategy for the invasion of North Africa, to be called "Operation TORCH".
Twelfth Air Force was reactivated at March Field, CA, on May 17, 1946, and assigned as a training command under the Tactical Air Command.
During the war in Vietnam, the Twelfth was a primary source for tactical fighter, reconnaissance, and airlift forces in that theater.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/usaf/12af.htm   (790 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Twelfth Night: Context
Twelfth Night is about illusion, deception, disguises, madness, and the extraordinary things that love will cause us to do—and to see.
Twelfth Night is the only one of Shakespeare’s plays to have an alternative title: the play is actually called Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s so-called transvestite comedies, a category that also includes As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice.
www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/twelfthnight/context.html   (692 words)

  
 Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night celebrates the arrival of the Three Kings to the birthplace of Christ.
Twelfth Night was a part of the year-end festivities in the British Isles and France.
Celebration of such Twelfth Night festivities was no longer a tradition by the Mid-Nineteenth Century, but were replaced with "Mummer Plays," which are still performed today throughout the British Isles.
www.novareinna.com /festive/twelfth.html   (1039 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Twelfth Night: Music: Shakespeare,Gonet,Murphy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
TWELFTH NIGHT is probably one of the most unthreatening and reader/audience-friendly Shakespearean plays in its accessibility.
TWELFTH NIGHT on top of the festive spirit and dramatic forgery and facetious gulling is a search of human identity in all its strangeness and paradoxicality.
The broad appeal of TWELFTH NIGHT as a good-humored play is sharpened by its comedy of mistaken identity between the long-lost twins Sabestian and Viola.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000034D2E?v=glance   (2276 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : Twelfth Cake (Recipe)
In the Green Room of London's Drury Lane Theatre, however, Twelfth Cake still is eaten and a toast drunk in honor of Richard Baddeley the comedian, who died in 1794.
Originally the Twelfth Night Cake, baked with a bean and a pea inside, was accompanied by generous supplies of "Lamb's Wool" (an ale, seasoned with sugar, nutmeg and the pulp of roasted apples.for the wassail bowl), as well as various kinds of sweetmeats.
It was customary for friends and relatives to gather round the festive board on Twelfth Night to dine sumptuously and then perform the ceremony of cutting the Twelfth Cake.
www.catholicculture.org /lit/recipes/view.cfm?id=1534   (633 words)

  
 Twelfth Gate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In April of 2001, TWELFTH GATE recorded a 4-song demo at Studio One (Racine, WI) with Chris Djuricic, and began to distribute it to various independent record labels, and to anyone that was willing to listen.
TWELFTH GATE was quickly becoming the premier metal act in the Chicago area.
Now, with the album (entitled “Summoning”) finished, all the pieces are in place for TWELFTH GATE to take their first step in forever making their mark on the world of metal.
www.crashmusicinc.com /Bio-bands/Twelthe-gate.htm   (358 words)

  
 Twelfth Night Summary & Essays - William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night; or What You Will was composed by William Shakespeare in either 1600 or 1601 as the last of his three "mature comedies" (the other two being Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It).
And, like other representatives of the genre, Twelfth Night also features a subplot in which a self-inflated "sour" or "blocking" character, the steward Malvolio, is brought to his knees through a trick orchestrated by a ribald if also self-inflated character in the person of Sir Toby Belch.
But unlike his early comedies, Shakespeare also strikes some discordant notes in Twelfth Night, including a conception of love and other themes that are not part of the conventional romantic comedy formula.
www.enotes.com /twelfth   (393 words)

  
 Twelfth Night - ReligionFacts
In the Middle Ages this period was one of continuous feasting and merrymaking, which climaxed on Twelfth Night, the traditional end of the Christmas season.
Twelfth Night is a holiday on January 5 that marks the 12th and final night of the Christmas season.
Twelfth Night is the eve before the twelfth day of Christmas or the Epiphany celebration, which commemorates the adoration of the Magi before the infant Jesus.
www.religionfacts.com /christianity/holidays/twelfth_night.htm   (543 words)

  
 Twelfth Night   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Twelfth Night, like Shakespeare's other plays, is usually treated with a kind of reverence, much like standing in a gallery and looking in awe at a statue - looking with awe but with no other feelings.
Yet Shakespeare meant Twelfth Night to be a romance that is funny in itself because of the many mistaken identities: Olivia falls in love with Viola, thinking she's Cesario, and then marries Sebastian, who has been using the name Roderigo, because she thinks he is his twin Viola disguised as Cesario.
Twelfth Night is written in a version of the English language now 400 years old and by a poet-playwright drawing on an extraordinarily large and varied vocabulary reflecting common usage, legalisms, terms from medicine and warfare, and words and phrases from nearly every other aspect of Elizabethan life, culture, and society.
www.teachervision.fen.com /literature-and-drama/activity/4102.html   (8024 words)

  
 Twelfth House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The twelfth house implicates both the boundless nature of the holistic universe, and the boundaries we create to protect ourselves from the unknown.
This concept of boundaries implicit in the twelfth house is also reflected in its rulership of prisons and other large institutions.
I have Libra on the cusp of the twelfth house, ruled by Venus in Virgo in the eleventh.
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 On the Twelfth Day of Christmas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Twelfth Day of Christmas, celebrated as the Feast of Epiphany in many parts of the world is often as important as Christmas.
Today, traditional celebrants of Twelfth Night partake of a cake in which a few beans were inserted prior to baking.
Twelfth Night parties are similar to a masquarade in that participants wear costume and may often be masked.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/1071/86684   (469 words)

  
 Twelfth Gate: Home
Twelfth Gate would like to officially announce that Scott Huffman (vocals) has decided to quit the band, and that Brent "Red" Erickson has accepted the role as his replacement.
Also, even before we started looking, we made the decision that our new singer needed to be someone with a different style, but who's voice would also fit the direction that the band was going in.
Due to uncontrollable circumstances, singer Scott Huffman will not be performing with TWELFTH GATE during their performance at the Chicago Powerfest.
www.twelfthgate.net   (1219 words)

  
 Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1998) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I was very excited to see that Twelfth Night was being broadcast on our local PBS station, especially since I had the pleasure of seeing it live in New York City over the summer.
I am a true follower of Helen Hunt and was quite surprised to watch the Season Premiere of Mad About You and recognize some of the actors from the play.
Twelfth Night was a nice introduction of Shakespeare and has aroused my curiosity for other plays.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0171854   (263 words)

  
 TWELFTH NIGHT discography, MP3 and reviews
TWELFTH NIGHT emerged from the Andy Revell Band formed at Reading University, where in 1978 they won a talent competition.
After Clive Mitten joined in 1979, TWELFTH NIGHT as a band were born and got straight down to the work of recording.
TWELFTH NIGHT are still making music in one form or another - but it tends to be fitted around the day jobs.
www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=339   (523 words)

  
 Twelfth Night - School of the Seasons
This twelfth night of the twelve days of Christmas is the official end of the winter holiday season and one of the traditional days for taking down the Christmas decorations (see also January 13 and February 1).
In southern and western England, revelers gathered in orchards where they sang to the trees, drank to their health, poured hot cider over their roots, left cider-soaked toast in their branches for the birds and scared away evil spirits with a great shout and the firing of guns.
In England, the Twelfth Night cake is usually a rich and dense fruitcake which contains both a bean and pea.
www.schooloftheseasons.com /twelfthnight.html   (986 words)

  
 New York State Writers Institute - Twelfth Night: Or What You Will Film Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
TWELFTH NIGHT, one of the warmest and wittiest of Shakespeare’s plays, has seen remarkably few screen treatments.
TWELFTH NIGHT is no chamber comedy, but a sweeping, gender-bent symphony of gags, deceptions, and love lost and regained.
TWELFTH NIGHT brims over with sex and intimations of sex, both heterosexual and homosexual.
www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fns98n2.html   (651 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Organ Stops   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On the theatre organ, the 2-2/3' pitch is taken from the Tibia Clausa or Concert Flute.
The name Quint is more properly a synonym for Fifth The name Nasard and its variants are often used as synonyms for Twelfth, but they are more properly of flute tone.
This stop is extremely common, especially under the names Quint, with about 400 examples in Osiris, and Twelfth, with about 240 examples.
www.organstops.org /t/Twelfth.html   (231 words)

  
 Enjoying "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare
In "Twelfth Night", behind all the humor, both the jester and the play tell a truth that is at once happy and sad.
"Twelfth Night" is January 5-6, the twelfth night after Christmas; you know the song about the twelve days.
Or are you faking?" ("Twelfth Night" was written about the same time as "Hamlet".) The jester goes out to get the paper and ink that Malvolio has requested, singing a song.
www.pathguy.com /12n.htm   (11085 words)

  
 Twelfth House · Astrological definition of Twelfth House · Astrology Encyclopedia
Twelfth House · Astrological definition of Twelfth House · Astrology Encyclopedia · June 17, 2006, 22:41 GMT
While it is frequently tenanted by the significators of scandal, self-approbation and hardness of heart, its qualities can be advantageously employed for work done in seclusion, for confidential behind-the-scene activities, and for meditation and inner development.
The Terminal Houses, the Fourth, Eighth and Twelfth, corresponding to the Emotional Triplicity of Signs, are concerned with the three most mysterious phases of life; the Fourth, the end of physical man; the Eighth, the liberation of his soul; the Twelfth, his secret aspirations and his disposition in the after-world.
www.astrologyweekly.com /dictionary/twelfth-house.php   (787 words)

  
 Where Worlds Collide: Twelfth Night
While contemporaries Marillion went on (at one stage in their career) to play enormo-domes like Wembley Arena, and lesser bands like IQ and even the derivative Pendragon went on to lengthy careers, both commercial success and critical acclaim were to elude Twelfth Night.
I first encountered Twelfth Night as a four-piece instrumental band when I was a student at Reading University, in 1980.
Twelfth Night themselves regrouped with new singer Andy Sears, and recorded the mini-album "Art and Illusion".
www.kalyr.com /weblog/music/000038.shtml   (1346 words)

  
 Twelfth-Wave Transformer
As illustrated above, with the quarter-wave transformer, only one matching cable is required, of electrical length Lq=one quarter wavelength, but this is very often a non-standard characteristic impedance.
The precise electrical lengths needed in the twelfth-wave transformer are just slightly less than an exact twelfth.
The horizontal dashed line corresponds to an exact twelfth length (0.0833333).
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/demerson/twelfth.htm   (743 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Made Easy): Books: William Shakespeare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"Twelfth Night" is built upon the reliable comedic premise of mistaken identity.
"Twelfth Night" is not just a comedy but, as the title indicates, a festive play in which songs and holiday spirit figure into the mood, providing a relaxed and joyous atmosphere in which the audience may feel privy to an elaborate jest.
We all (Shakespeare not the least of us) know how absurd it is that Viola disguised as a boy would look and sound so exactly like her twin brother as to make the two indistinguishable to the other characters in the play, but this is the indispensible device that holds the comedy together.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812036042?v=glance   (1715 words)

  
 Twelfth Night   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This document is an html formatted version of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night".
It is possible that the original text comes to us from Project Gutenberg, although it does not bear their usual small print.
If you appreciate this document or would like to see more such, send me mail at "rgs@cs.cmu.edu".
www.cs.cmu.edu /People/rgs/12night-table.html   (82 words)

  
 Twelfth Night
Shakespeare mixes Twelfth Night with a potpourri of ingredients to achieve his comic effect—a set of twins, some situation comedy, a dash of dramatic irony, a dollop of romance, three boisterous merrymakers, and a puritanical sourpuss.
The climax of a play or another narrative work, such as a short story or a novel, can be defined as (1) the turning point at which the conflict begins to resolve itself for better or worse, or as (2) the final and most exciting event in a series of events.
Twelfth Night is a comedy written in the festive spirit of the Twelfth Night of the Christmas season, January 6, as part of events celebrating the holiday season.
www.cummingsstudyguides.net /xTwelfth.html   (3616 words)

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