Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s most common modernly-known works if only because of the 2006 movie She’s The Man which is one of THE movies of my generation. As far as I can remember, I’ve never seen it, but I see the picture of Amanda Bynes with the tampon up her nose enough on the internet to make me understand that this is a classic for millenials.
In choosing which plays I wanted to read for this project, I read through their descriptions online, and Twelfth Night stood out to me because it incorporates love triangles, drag, and chaos - all topics which should make for a very funny play.
The play is about a girl, Viola, who is shipwrecked in Illyria with her brother, Sebastian (whom she thinks died in the shipwreck) and for some reason dresses up as a man and falls in love with a man, Orsino, who is in love with a girl, Olivia, who is in love with Viola because she thinks she is a man, Cesario.
I am SO excited to get started on Twelfth Night and I put it on hold last week so I have it in my possession now!!
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