Twelfth Night is a comedy that William Shakespeare wrote during the Elizabethan time. This play has twists and turns and the ending is nothing you would ever expect.
The main characters are: Viola/Cesario, Sebastian, Olivia, Duke Orsino, Malvolio, Sir Toby Blech, Sir Andrew, Maria and the Fool.
Viola loses her brother in a tragic accident. She was saved by the captain and a couple sailors. She learns that women don't have a lot of rights in Illyria so she gets help from the captain to be a man, Cesario, and to live like a man to work for the duke.
Lady Olivia has also lost a brother. She is so sad that she swears never to look at or marry a man for seven years. Too bad for the duke because he is insanely in love with Olivia. The duke tries to convince Olivia to forget about her brother and marry him, so he sends his servants because he is to scared to do it himself. But one day he sends Viola\Cesario to talk her out of it. But the duke made one of the biggest mistakes of his life. Instead of Olivia falling in love with the duke she fell in love with Viola\Cesario. Later on Olivia marries Viola's brother, who actually had survived the tragic accident. And Viola marries the duke.
In this play Shakespeare puts the characters in two places. Romance or becoming psycho. Also Shakespeare makes the fool the smartest one and the servants or educated characters not as smart. This was the best play I ever read, because it was so funny, and a tragic story was turned into comedy.
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