Different traditions mark the date of Twelfth Night on either 5 January or 6 January, depending on which day one considers to be the first of the Twelve Days: 25 or 26 December. Next: Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 5 Explanatory Notes for Act 1, Scene 4 From Twelfth Night Or What You Will.Ed.

The footnotes and annotations are thorough and helpful. Kenneth Deighton. “Liberty Testing Courtesy.” Twentieth Century Interpretations of Twelfth Night.

Folly in Twelfth Night is of misrule.

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Twelfth Night: or, What You Will (The Annotated Shakespeare) Paperback – May 24, 2007 by William Shakespeare (Author) › Visit Amazon's William Shakespeare Page. The reference to “pestilence” would have had particularly poignant connotations for Elizabethan audiences. Barber, C.L. By Walter N. King. Here is a sample annotated bibliography for Twelfth Night. “Pestilence” here refers to the Black Death, or bubonic plague, a virulent, infectious disease that swept medieval Europe and killed about a third of its population. London: Macmillan. Orsino opens the play with a speech, beginning, "if music be the food of love, play on"; the "if," and the particular diction of the line, makes the statement sound like an allusion to a familiar proverb, though no corresponding proverb is known (I.i.1). Twelfth Night (also known as Epiphany Eve) is a festival in some branches of Christianity that takes place on the last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas, marking the coming of the Epiphany. Too bad Olivia can't be bothered with the Duke or any other living man. 45-52. 4. his humour, his caprice: call in question, seem to doubt. 2. you are like ... advanced, there is every prospect of his raising you to a high office about him. Twelfth Night, or What You Will Summary The play opens at the Illyrian court, where the love-sick Duke Orsino enjoys some live tunes while fantasizing about the luscious Countess Olivia. Regardless of the exact number of plots and subplots, however, the main thing is that they are all woven together with immense skill to ultimately compose a single pattern or tapestry.

Various critics divide Twelfth Night into various types of plots and/or subplots.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1968. Twelfth Night.

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