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    Twelfth Night
    Twelfth Night
    Twelfth Night
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    Twelfth Night

    By William Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare needs no formal introduction.In his 52 years of life Shakespeare wrote dozens of the most famous plays in history which have earned him the reputation as the finest writer the English language has ever had.This version of Shakespeares Twelfth Night includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781629218977
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist in the English language. Shakespeare is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.”  

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      Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

      Twelfth Night

      Characters of the Play

      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

      Scene I. Duke Orsino's palace.

      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 capacityReceiveth 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 fancyThat 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 walkAnd water once a day her chamber roundWith eye-offending brine: all this to seasonA brother’s dead love, which she would keep freshAnd lasting in her sad remembrance.

      Duke Orsino

      O, she that hath a heart of that fine frameTo pay this debt of love but to a brother,How will she love, when the rich golden shaftHath kill’d the flock of all affections elseThat live in her; when liver, brain and heart,These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill’dHer 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.

      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 youHung 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 wavesSo 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 bornNot 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 countThat died some twelvemonth since, then leaving herIn the protection of his son, her brother,Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,They say, she hath abjured the companyAnd sight of men.

      Viola

      O that I served that ladyAnd might not be delivered to the world,Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,What my estate is!

      Captain

      That were hard to compass;Because she will admit no kind of suit,No, not the duke’s.

      Viola

      There is a fair behavior in thee, captain;And though that nature with a beauteous wallDoth oft close in pollution, yet of theeI will believe thou hast a mind that suitsWith this thy fair and outward character.I prithee, and I’ll pay thee bounteously,Conceal me what I am, and be my aidFor such disguise as haply shall becomeThe form of my intent. I’ll serve this duke:Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:It may be worth thy pains; for I can singAnd speak to him in many sorts of musicThat will allow me very worth his service.What else may hap to time I will commit;Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.

      Captain

      Be you his eunuch, and your mute I’ll be:When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.

      Viola

      I thank thee: lead me on.

      Exeunt 

      Scene III. Olivia's house.

      Enter Sir Toby Belch and Maria 

      Sir Toby Belch

      What a plague means my niece, to take the death of her brother thus? I am sure care’s an enemy to life.

      Maria

      By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o’ nights: your cousin, my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours.

      Sir Toby Belch

      Why, let her except, before excepted.

      Maria

      Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

      Sir Toby Belch

      Confine! I’ll confine myself no finer than I am: these clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be these boots too: an they be not, let them hang themselves in their own straps.

      Maria

      That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard my lady talk of it yesterday; and of a foolish knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer.

      Sir Toby Belch

      Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek?

      Maria

      Ay, he.

      Sir Toby Belch

      He’s

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