![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases Full explanatory notes conveniently linked to the text of the play Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play ![]() Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference The authoritative edition of Twelfth Night from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia-only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian previously caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke Orsino. Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the incredible comedy about unrequited love, both hilarious and heartbreaking, now presented by the Folger Shakespeare Library with valuable new tools for educators and dynamic new covers. ![]()
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