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William Shakespeare is almost universally considered the English language's most famous and greatest writer. In fact, the only people who might dispute that are those who think he didn't write the surviving 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems still attributed to him. Even people who never get around to reading his works in class are instantly familiar with titles like King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Shakespeare.



Twelfth Night is a comedy that makes reference to the Eve of the Feast of Epiphany, which comes 12 nights after Christmas. In Shakespeare's time, it was a Catholic holiday that was transformed into a celebration full of partying, with people dressing up as the opposite sex and servants dressing up like their masters. This theme is used to advance the plot of Shakespeare's comedy to reach the ending.

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TWELFTH NIGHT

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William Shakespeare

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Twelfth Night

Characters of the Play

Act I

Scene I. Duke Orsino’s palace.

Scene II. The sea-coast.

Scene III. Olivia’s house.

Scene IV. Duke Orsino’s palace.

Scene V. Olivia’s house.

Act II

Scene I. The sea-coast.

Scene II. A street.

Scene III. Olivia’s house.

Scene IV. Duke Orsino’s palace.

Scene V. Olivia’s garden.

Act III

Scene I. Olivia’s garden.

Scene II. Olivia’s house.

Scene III. A street.

Scene IV. Olivia’s garden.

Act IV

Scene I. Before Olivia’s house.

Scene II. Olivia’s house.

Scene III. Olivia’s garden.

Act V

Scene I. Before Olivia’s house.

Twelfth Night

By

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

Published by Masquerade Press

New York City, NY

First published 1602

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TWELFTH NIGHT

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CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY

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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

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SCENE I. DUKE ORSINO’S PALACE.

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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 capacity

Receiveth 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 fancy

That 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 walk

And water once a day her chamber round

With eye-offending brine: all this to season

A brother’s dead love, which she would keep fresh

And lasting in her sad remembrance.

Duke Orsino

O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame

To pay this debt of love but to a brother,

How will she love, when the rich golden shaft

Hath kill’d the flock of all affections else

That live in her; when liver, brain and heart,

These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill’d

Her 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.

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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 you

Hung 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 waves

So 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 born

Not 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 count

That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her

In the protection of his son, her brother,

Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,

They say, she hath abjured the company

And sight of men.

Viola

O that I served that lady

And 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 wall

Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee

I will believe thou hast a mind that suits

With this thy fair and outward character.

I prithee, and I’ll pay thee bounteously,

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid

For such disguise as haply shall become

The 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 sing

And speak to him in many sorts of music

That 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.

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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 as tall a man as any’s in Illyria.

Maria

What’s that to the purpose?

Sir Toby Belch

Why, he has three thousand ducats a year.

Maria

Ay, but he’ll have but a year in all these ducats: he’s a very fool and a prodigal.

Sir Toby Belch

Fie, that you’ll say so! he plays o’ the viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature.

Maria

He hath indeed, almost natural: for besides that he’s a fool, he’s a great quarreller: and but that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, ’tis thought among the prudent he would quickly have the gift of a grave.

Sir Toby Belch

By this hand, they are scoundrels and subtractors that say so of him. Who are they?

Maria

They that add, moreover, he’s drunk nightly in your company.

Sir Toby Belch

With drinking healths to my niece: I’ll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in Illyria: he’s a coward and a coystrill that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn o’ the toe like a parish-top. What, wench! Castiliano vulgo! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface.

Enter Sir Andrew

Sir Andrew

Sir Toby Belch! how now, Sir Toby Belch!

Sir Toby Belch

Sweet Sir Andrew!

Sir Andrew

Bless you, fair shrew.

Maria

And you too, sir.

Sir Toby Belch

Accost, Sir Andrew, accost.

Sir Andrew

What’s that?

Sir Toby Belch

My niece’s chambermaid.

Sir Andrew

Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance.

Maria

My name is Mary, sir.

Sir Andrew

Good Mistress Mary Accost —

Sir Toby Belch

You mistake, knight; ‘accost’ is front her, board her, woo her, assail her.

Sir Andrew

By my troth, I would not undertake her in this company. Is that the meaning of ‘accost’?

Maria

Fare you well, gentlemen.

Sir Toby Belch

An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst never draw sword again.

Sir Andrew

An you part so, mistress, I would I might never draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have fools in hand?

Maria

Sir, I have not you by the hand.

Sir Andrew

Marry, but you shall have; and here’s my hand.

Maria

Now, sir, ‘thought is free:’ I pray you, bring your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink.

Sir Andrew

Wherefore, sweet-heart? what’s your metaphor?

Maria

It’s dry, sir.

Sir Andrew

Why, I think so: I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what’s your jest?

Maria

A dry jest, sir.

Sir Andrew

Are you full of them?

Maria

Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers’ ends: marry, now I let go your hand, I am barren.

Exit

Sir Toby Belch

O knight thou lackest a cup of canary: when did I see thee so put down?

Sir Andrew

Never in your life, I think; unless you see canary put me down. Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has: but I am a great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit.

Sir Toby Belch

No question.

Sir Andrew

An I thought that, I’ld forswear it. I’ll ride home to-morrow, Sir Toby.

Sir Toby Belch

Pourquoi, my dear knight?

Sir Andrew

What is ‘Pourquoi’? do or not do? I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but followed the arts!

Sir Toby Belch

Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair.

Sir Andrew

Why, would that have mended my hair?

Sir Toby Belch

Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature.

Sir Andrew

But it becomes me well enough, does’t not?

Sir Toby Belch

Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off.

Sir Andrew

Faith, I’ll home to-morrow, Sir Toby: your niece will not be seen; or if she be, it’s four to one she’ll none of me: the count himself here hard by woos her.

Sir Toby Belch

She’ll none o’ the count: she’ll not match above her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit; I have heard her swear’t. Tut, there’s life in’t, man.

Sir Andrew

I’ll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o’ the strangest mind i’ the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether.

Sir Toby Belch