num_pages: 57
description: Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming “Count Malvolio” only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymakers he wishes to suppress. The two plots combine to create a farce touched with melancholy, mixed throughout with seductively beautiful explorations on the themes of love and time, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s sad song.'
language: English
title: Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
titlecomplete: Twelfth Night; or, What You Will (A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare)
characters: Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Feste, Viola, Sir Toby Belch, Malvolio, Sebastion, Count Orsino, Sebastian, Olivia
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Poetry, Drama, School, Romance, Literature, Classics, Read For School
ratings_count: 178145
places: Illyria
publisher: Modern Language Association of America