Who wrote the story twelfth night ?
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, based on the short story “Of Apollonius and Silla” by Barnabe Rich, which in turn was based on a story by Matteo Bandello. It is named after the Twelfth Night holiday of the Christmas season. It was written around 1601 and first performed in front of an audience on 2 February 1602.[citation needed] The play was not published before the First Folio in 1623, seven years after the playwright’s death. The main title is believed to be an afterthought, created after John Marston premièred a play titled What You Will during the course of the writing. The title Twelfth Night, or What You Will, prepares us for the mind games being played in the script. Reading through the theatre piece, it is difficult to conjure up a clear message behind the mysterious heading. The title tells us that the time is night, which pertains to darkness and losing innocence. The heading also represents the Twelfth Night of Christmas, it suggests that
This document is an html formatted version of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”. It is possible that the original text comes to us from Project Gutenberg, although it does not bear their usual small print. This document is part of a small, but growing collection of html formatted etexts. (Others may be found in either my home page or John Ockerbloom’s indexes by author and title.) I am still trying to figure out whether anyone else is interested in these on-line readable documents. If you appreciate this document or would like to see more such, send me mail at “rgs@cs.cmu.edu”. Sources: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/12night-table.
