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	Twelfth Night (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was written to be performed as part of Twelfth Night celebrations and first performed at Candlemas, February 2, which was then the culmination of the long winter feast, at Middle Temple Hall, London by Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
		The play ends in a declaration of marriage between the Duke and Viola, and Olivia and Sebastian, though the marriage is never actually seen.
		When the play was first performed, all female parts were played by men or boys, but it has been the practice for some centuries now to cast women or girls in the female parts in all plays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twelfth_Night_(play) (854 words)

	Twelfth Night (holiday) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Twelfth Night is a holiday January 6 marked by some branches of Christianity, marking the 12th and final night of the Christmas season, namely the night of twelfth day or January 6, the Epiphany celebration to commemorate the adoration of the Magi.
		A King or Lord of Misrule would be appointed to run the Christmas festivities, and the Twelfth Night was the end of his period of rule.
		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) (298 words)

	Twelfth Night (play) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a (Light and humorous drama with a happy ending) comedy by (English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)) William Shakespeare.
		The play ends in a declaration of (The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)) marriage between the Duke and Viola, and Olivia and Sebastian, though the marriage is never actually seen.
		Much of the play is taken up with the comic (Click link for more info and facts about subplot) subplot, in which several characters conspire to make Olivia's pompous head (Someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else) steward Malvolio believe that the lady Olivia wishes to marry him.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tw/twelfth_night_(play).htm (663 words)

	Encyclopedia: Twelfth Night (play) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Twelfth Night is a holiday January 5 marked by some branches of Christianity, marking the 12th and final night of the Christmas season, namely the eve before twelfth day or January 6, the Epiphany celebration to commemorate the adoration of the Magi.
		Henry VI Part III is the third of William Shakespeares plays set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England, and prepares the ground for one of his best-known and most controversial plays: the tragedy of King Richard III (Richard III of England).
		The Tragedy of Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare, in which the monarch Richard III of England is unflatteringly depicted.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Twelfth-Night-(play) (3039 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)

	Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: A searchable online version at The Literature Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When we performed Twelfth Night recently, i was to play Sir Toby, and as a result, had to research his drunken ramblings.
		I read Twelfth Night, and I find that Olivia marries Sebastian at the end of the play, though in fact, she loves Cesario, or Viola.
		twelfth night is the best play in modern entertainment it has all the aspects of a great new modern film.
	www.online-literature.com /shakespeare/12night (1916 words)

	Albion College News and Sports / Theatre "Twelfth Night"
		Twelfth Night is a comedy originally performed in 1602 but not published until 1623, years after Shakespeare’s death.
		The play is a delightful combination of the confusion of identities and the contention for love.
		Also, the play is interesting because of the way it breaks down traditional categories of sexuality.
	www.albion.edu /ac_news/releases2003-04/twelfthnight.asp (203 words)

	Shakespeare's 12th Night study questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Twelfth Night moves from a potentially tragic situation (shipwreck and loss) into the joyous realm of romantic comedy (unions and reunions).
		Twelfth Night dramatizes the seduction scenario we have noted as a common thread in much lyric poetry of the Renaissance and early 17th century.
		It is thought that Twelfth Night was first written for the "Carnival"-like festivities of the feast of the Epiphany (the "twelfth night" of Christmas, January 6); these raucous celebrations involved a temporary inversion of the established social order.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl331/12thnight.html (1592 words)

	Twelfth Night the play by William Shakespeare
		The picture is 18th century and image displayed represents the essence of the play which, we hope, will bring to life a famous scene or character from Twelfth Night.
		Twelfth Night ends and everyone, except Malvolio, is happy and Shakespeare speaks of the madness of love.
		The quotes from Twelfth Night are amongst Shakespeare's most famous including 'some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them'.
	www.william-shakespeare.info /shakespeare-play-twelfth-night.htm (874 words)

	Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada: On the scaffold - Scaffold Theater Project's open-air production of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The rooftop plaza of Jackson square is a combination of concrete and small islands of tended green, with a backdrop of skyscrapers.
		Twelfth Night competed with skateboarders, sirens and bad mufflers, and the odd drunken heckler.
		The play was set in modern day Hamilton, with Duke Orsino (Mark Zenchuk) running a music store on the verge of bankruptcy and Olivia (Andrea Romaldi) as the proprietor of a cafe.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1319/is_1_32/ai_53480016 (1062 words)

	Twelfth Night at the University of Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the greatest moments of comedy in the play is that of Malvolio, dressed ridiculously and smiling from ear to ear as he approaches Olivia with the assumption that she is in love with him.
		Twelfth Night is similiar to Shakespeare's other comedies in that it has memorable characters who find or put themselves in interesting and humorous situations.
		· In the play Twelfth Night, Malvolio is punished for being a moralistic stick-in-the-mud.
	www.cc.utah.edu /~mp2434/54112ns.html (3701 words)

	Free Barron's BookNotes for Twelfth Night - The Play-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from PinkMonkey.com
		Plays about identical twins who are mistaken for one another had been popular since the time of the ancient Greeks.
		Shakespeare wrote his plays for a repertory company, and often you can tell something about the actors from the way the characters in the plays are described.
		Plays like this made the playhouse popular with foreign visitors, who could enjoy the costumes and the music, and the slapstick comedy of scenes like the duel between Sir Andrew and Viola, even when they couldn't understand English.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/twelfth2.asp (7553 words)

	Twelfth Night; or, What You Will -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night was first performed in 1601–02 and printed in the First Folio of 1623.
		Night adders are patchily distributed in African forests and grasslands south of the Sahara.
		The night adders have no visible features that identify them as vipers except when they bare their fangs.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9339004?tocId=9339004&query=walpurgis (765 words)

	Amazon.com: TWELFTH NIGHT: Books (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/-/0671722948?v=glance (2605 words)

	Twelfth Night -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		in full Twelfth Night; or, What You Will comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1600–02 and printed in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of an authorial draft or possibly a playbook.
		At the center of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night is the character of Viola, a young woman shipwrecked with her twin brother, Sebastian, off the Illyrian coast.
		The nine plays most often read in American high schools are: ‘Macbeth', ‘As You Like It', ‘Julius Caesar', ‘Hamlet', ‘The Merchant of Venice', ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream', ‘Romeo and Juliet', ‘The Tempest', and ‘Twelfth Night'.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9000132?tocId=9000132 (708 words)

	Twelfth Night Summary guide at Absolute Shakespeare
		Twelfth Night Summary provides a quick review of the play's plot including every important action in the play.
		Twelfth Night Summary is divided by the five acts of the play and is an ideal introduction before reading the original text.
		Late at night, Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and later Feste the Clown are enjoying some late night drinking and singing.
	absoluteshakespeare.com /guides/twelfth_night/summary/twelfth_night_summary.htm (2205 words)

	London theatre tickets Royal Shakespeare Company Twelfth Night play on stage in London's West End Barbican Theatre - ...
		This year marks the 400th anniversary of the play, which Shakespeare is believed to have written in 1601.
		Posner understands that this play has its sorrows, its perplexities, its merriment, but he can't let them be, he must squeeze them.
		Twelfth Night can be the play in which Shakespeare is the most life-enhancingly human of all artists, but Posner seems to have approached it with less heart than brain." The Financial Times
	www.albemarle-london.com /rsc-twelfth.html (926 words)

	Theater \| Play on
		Arciniegas and his well-trained cast bring a contemporary brittleness to the play by the most old-fashioned of means: they mine the text for meaning rather than embellishing it.
		This Twelfth Night — which Arciniegas has staged, on Susan Zeeman Rogers’s ingenious set (a movable collage of Persian rugs), with a superb eye for composition — doesn’t shy from exposing the characters’ follies, including those of Sebastian’s rescuer, the sea captain Antonio (Eric Hamel), who suffers from an excess of bravado.
		Fischer’s performance is a model of craftsmanship (precision and clarity): she uses a combination of the given circumstances and the language to shift emotional directions continually, sometimes in mid line.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/theater/documents/03038030.asp (740 words)

	Amazon.com: Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (Shakespeare Made Easy : Modern English Version Side-By-Side With Full ... (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.
		There is a couple of elaborate pranks being played upon characters in the play, in which Malvolio becomes one of the victims.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812036042?v=glance (1682 words)

	Readings on Twelfth Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Feste is more than the Twelfth Night ``king of misrule''; as a master and ``corrupter of words,'' he recognizes language as a disguise of words, reason, and logic and begins revealing the truths to the other characters
		In this excerpt from The Twelfth Night of Shakespeare's Audience, the late Professor John W. Draper pronounces Olivia as ``undoubtedly the heroine'' of the play--an idea which he thoroughly supports through astute analysis of the text.
		The multiple interpretations of Twelfth Night are at times overwhelming; so, in light of this acknowledgement, a solution of opposites is proposed, specifically the pair of give and take which is epitomized by Viola's selfless giving and Feste's gracious taking.
	www.booksmatter.com /b0737706163.htm (892 words)

	Fine Line Features \| Twelfth Night \| Study Guide
		Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's timeless comedies.
		Early in Twelfth Night, Orsino speaks the famous line, "If music be the food of love, play on!" (28.8k video clip, ISDN video clip.) He says he wants to hear music because an "excess" of it may kill his "appetite" for love.
		Twelfth Night concludes with a triple marriage, as Orsino marries Viola, Olivia marries Sebastian, and Sir Toby marries Maria.Think about these three relationships and the kind of love each is based on.
	www.finelinefeatures.com /twelfth/guide.htm (711 words)

	Director's Twelfth Night Production Completes Her 'Sentimental Journey' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Seventeen years after directing her first play, Twelfth Night,with a troupe of high school girls at the Spence School in New York, School of Theater Director Toni Dorfman has come full circle.
		Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare, is the School of Theater's last play for the Winter ShadoWorlds series.
		The play is set in Elyria on the Dalmatian coast, which is today the area of the former Yugoslavia.
	thepost.baker.ohiou.edu /archives/030196/director.html (465 words)

	London theatre tickets for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre play Twelfth Night on stage in London's West End
		Play by William Shakespeare directed by Tim Carroll.
		His previous plays at the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre include Augustine's Oak (1999), The Two Noble Kinsmen (2000) and Macbeth (2001).
		At the end, as the now rightly rearranged couples celebrate their good fortune in a partner-swapping dance, there is a jokey sense of how interchangeable the still identically dressed Viola and Sebastian remain.
	www.albemarle-london.com /g-twelfthnight.html (884 words)

	NovelGuide: Twelfth Night: Theme Analysis
		The play is meant to bring laughter to the audience while touching their hearts.
		Finally, the last paradox in Twelfth Night is the idea of a woman being the head of the household.
		This theme may have arisen in Shakespeare’s play because it was written at a time when a woman was the leader of England.
	www.novelguide.com /twelfthnight/themeanalysis.html (365 words)

	Twelfth Night Essay1
		"Twelfth Night" consists of many love triangles, however many of the characters who are tangled up in the web of love are blind to see that their emotions and feelings toward other characters are untrue.
		Friendship is the third type of love expressed in "Twelfth Night." The biggest and closest friendship would have to be between Orsino and Cesario.
		"Twelfth Night" is the true definition of love, and Shakespeare does a great job of explaining a somewhat difficult topic.
	www.field-of-themes.com /shakespeare/essays/Etwelth.htm (834 words)

	Which is the most important aspect of love demonstrated in the play Twelfth Night?
		Coursework and Essays: By Level: GCSE: Literature: Plays: William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night: Which is the most important aspect of love demonstrated in the play Twelfth Night
		She never mentions him in the play but Sir Andrew becomes jealous of Cesario when Olivia was giving "more favour to the Count's serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me".
		Viola's love is different though from the others' because the audience knew about her unrequited love throughout the play and it is only at the end that she reveals her true form (as a woman) and that is when her love for Orsino can be fully expressed.
	www.coursework.info /i/13711.html (619 words)

	Allusions to Edmund Campion in Twelfth Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The irony in the play now develops to match that of the Campion conferences, where Campion was called upon to assent to facts which, from his point of view as a scholar and a Catholic, were not facts at all.
		The steward Malvolio, protagonist of the play, is portrayed as a Puritan with "overweening" pride, and given to vanity and foppery --all in the most unflattering spirit.
		There is the coincidence with the title of the latter play, for Gorboduc originally was intended for a single performance on Twelfth Night; that is, January 6, 1562 [16].
	www.everreader.com /allusio3.htm (4264 words)

	Twelfth Night @Web English Teacher
		Some will be able to use specific terminology to describe the language at various points in the scene.
		A variety of teaching resources for before, during, and after reading the play.
		This 68-page guide from the Guthrie Theater includes a timeline of Shakespeare's life, an introduction to Shakespearean drama, a synopsis of the play, extensive critical commentary, vocabulary, a timeline of movies, discussion questions, and additional sources of information.
	www.webenglishteacher.com /12night.html (266 words)

	Essay: Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night
		Summary: In “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Twelfth Night,” women play very significant roles, not only in regards to the complexities of the plot, but as symbols, examples of strength, vanity, arrogance, friendship, hate, jealousy, and more.
		An analysis of the women within each play reveals an amazing commentary on society.
		And though the ugliness of society is explored as well, Shakespeare does permit a few of his characters to represent more than the frailties of women.
	www.essays-now.com /show_report.php?r_id=3383 (76 words)

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