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    Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
    Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
    Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
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    Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)

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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Twelfth Night’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Shakespeare includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    * The complete unabridged text of ‘Twelfth Night’
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786562890
    Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
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    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 by William Shakespeare (Illustrated) - William Shakespeare

      The Complete Works of

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      VOLUME 21 OF 74

      Twelfth Night

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2012

      Version 6

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Twelfth Night’

      William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 289 0

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      William Shakespeare: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 21 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Twelfth Night from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of William Shakespeare or the Complete Works of William Shakespeare in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      IN 74 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Plays

      1, Henry  VI, Part 2

      2, Henry  VI, Part 3

      3, Henry  VI, Part 1

      4, Richard  III

      5, The Comedy of Errors

      6, Titus Andronicus

      7, Taming of the Shrew

      8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

      9, Love’s Labour’s Lost

      10, Romeo and Juliet

      11, Richard II

      12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      13, King John

      14, The Merchant of Venice

      15, Henry IV, Part I

      16, Henry IV, Part II

      17, Much Ado About Nothing

      18, Henry V

      19, Julius Caesar

      20, As You Like It

      21, Twelfth Night

      22, Hamlet

      23, The Merry Wives of Windsor

      24, Troilus and Cressida

      25, All’s Well that Ends Well

      26, Measure for Measure

      27, Othello

      28, King Lear

      29, Macbeth

      30, Antony and Cleopatra

      31, Coriolanus

      32, Timon of Athens

      33, Pericles

      34, Cymbeline

      35, The Winter’s Tale

      36, The Tempest

      37, Henry  VIII

      38, The Two Noble Kinsmen

      The Lost Plays

      39, The Lost Plays

      The Sources

      40, The Plays’ Sources

      The Apocryphal Plays

      41, Arden of Faversham

      42, The Birth of Merlin

      43, King Edward  III

      44, Locrine

      45, The London Prodigal

      46, The Puritan

      47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy

      48, Sir John Oldcastle

      49, Thomas Lord Cromwell

      50, A Yorkshire Tragedy

      51, Sir Thomas More

      52, Fair Em

      53, Mucedorus

      54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton

      55, Edmund Ironside

      56, Thomas of Woodstock

      57, Vortigern and Rowena

      The Adaptations

      58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

      The Poetry

      59, The Sonnets

      60, Venus and Adonis

      61, The Rape of Lucrece

      62, The Passionate Pilgrim

      63, The Phoenix and the Turtle

      64, A Lover’s Complaint

      The Apocryphal Poetry

      65, To the Queen

      66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter

      67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

      The Criticism

      68, The Criticism

      The Biographies

      69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe

      70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson

      71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee

      72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson

      73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner

      Resources

      74, Resources

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      Twelfth Night

      OR

      WHAT YOU WILL

      Most likely written in 1601 as a Twelfth Night’s entertainment for the close of the Christmas season, this comedy features plot elements drawn from the short story Of Apollonius and Silla by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. The first recorded performance of the play was on 2 February 1602, at Candlemas, the formal end of Christmastide in the year’s calendar.

      Twelfth Night is set in Illyria, an ancient region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea covering parts of modern Albania, Croatia, and Montenegro.  Illyria may have been suggested by the Roman comedy Menæchmi, the plot of which also involves a pair of twins who are mistaken for each other. The leading character, Viola, is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria during the opening scenes. She loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes to be dead. Masquerading as a young page under the name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino through the help of the sea captain who rescues her. Orsino has convinced himself that he is in love with the bereaved Lady Olivia, whose father and brother have recently died, and who will have nothing to do with any suitors, the Duke included. Orsino decides to use Cesario as an intermediary to tell Olivia about his love for her. Olivia, believing Viola to be a man, falls in love with this handsome and eloquent messenger.  Much of the play is taken up with the comic subplot, in which characters conspire to make Olivia’s pompous head steward, Malvolio, believe that his lady Olivia wishes to marry him.

      Shakespeare’s main source text for this play is available via this link.

      The front page of the First Folio

      CONTENTS

      Dramatis Personæ

      Act I. Scene I.

      Act I. Scene II.

      Act I. Scene III.

      Act I. Scene IV.

      Act I. Scene V.

      Act II. Scene I.

      Act II. Scene II.

      Act II. Scene III.

      Act II. Scene IV.

      Act II. Scene V.

      Act III. Scene I.

      Act III. Scene II.

      Act III. Scene III.

      Act III. Scene IV.

      Act IV. Scene I.

      Act IV. Scene II.

      Act IV. Scene III.

      Act V. Scene I.

      The 1996 film adaptation

      Dramatis Personæ

      ORSINO, Duke of Illyria.

      SEBASTIAN, Brother to Viola.

      ANTONIO, a Sea Captain, Friend to Sebastian.

      A Sea Captain, Friend to Viola.

      VALENTINE & CURIO: Gentlemen attending on the Duke.

      SIR TOBY BELCH, Uncle to Olivia.

      SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK.

      MALVOLIO, Steward to Olivia.

      FABIAN, FESTE, a Clown: Servants to Olivia.

      OLIVIA, a rich Countess.

      VIOLA, in love with the Duke.

      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. Scene I.

      A Room in the DUKE’S Palace.

      Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending.

      Duke.  If music be the food of love, play on;

      Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,

      The appetite may sicken, and so die.   5

      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,

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