" Twelfth Night ( c. 1600 ) Act II Scene III

Diana is referred to in Twelfth Night when Orsino compares Viola ( in the guise of Cesario ) to Diana.

Gender masquerade as a dramatic device was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries, such as this scene from Twelfth Night painted by Frederick Richard Pickersgill | Frederick Pickersgill.

Such plot devices were used in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ( 1601 ), The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser in 1590, and James Shirley's The Bird in a Cage ( 1633 ).

Lucrece is also featured in William Shakespeare's 1594 long poem The Rape of Lucrece ; he also mentioned her in Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night ( Malvolio authenticates his fateful letter by spotting Olivia's Lucrece seal ).

* Twelfth Night: Or What You Will ( 1996 )-Sir Toby Belch

To Anderson, Peck's description suggests that this conceit is " arguably an early draft of Twelfth Night.

Watt also notes that some of these elements appear in many of his works, such as Twelfth Night or A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream, and had a deep impact on Shakespeare ’ s writing.

In the ' 80s, the Neo-progressive rock bands, such as Marillion, IQ, Pallas, Twelfth Night and Pendragon, continued the traditions of ' 70s symphonic prog, but without the complexity.

In Elizabethan English, the word " gambo " ( for gamba ) appears in many permutations ; e. g., " viola de gambo ", " gambo violl ", " viol de gambo ", or " viole de gambo ", used by such notables as Tobias Hume, John Dowland, and William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.

In 1953, Leigh recovered sufficiently to play The Sleeping Prince with Olivier ; and, in 1955, they performed a season at Stratford-upon-Avon in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus.

John Gielgud directed Twelfth Night and wrote, "... perhaps I will still make a good thing of that divine play, especially if he will let me pull her little ladyship ( who is brainier than he but not a born actress ) out of her timidity and safeness.

It may also be associated with the Winter Solstice festival or the Twelve Days of Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Twelfth Night.

* February 2 ( Candlemas night ) – First known production of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, in London.

The Town is home to the Rose Theatre with its resident company " The Nonentities " who recently celebrated their 25th Anniversary at the Rose Theatre with a performance of Twelfth Night, the play they first opened with at the site.

The distinctiveness of the late romances has been questioned – the plays certainly share commonalities with earlier Shakespearean works like Twelfth Night, with earlier romances by other authors back to the ancient world, and with works in genres like pastoral.

After winning the Academy Award, she took time off from movie work to play Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, at Lincoln Center in New York.

* Twelfth Night ( 1953 )

Arion is mentioned in Act 1, scene ii of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, where the Captain reassures Viola that her brother may still be alive after the shipwreck, for " like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves.

* The first Monday after Twelfth Night of January ( any time between 7 January and 14 January ) was Plough Monday.

Warlikowski has gained international recognition with a series of innovative productions of Shakespeare, performed both at Polish theatres ( The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet ) and abroad ( Pericles at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Twelfth Night and The Tempest at the Stadt-Theater in Stuttgart ).

He appeared in such plays as Vincent, Fiddler on the Roof, The Man in the Glass Booth, Oliver !, Six Rms Riv Vu, Full Circle, Camelot, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The King and I, Caligula, The Four Poster, Twelfth Night, Sherlock Holmes, Equus and My Fair Lady.

In 1976, he appeared as Feste in Twelfth Night, and as Majorin in Monsieur Perrichon's Travels.

He bequeathed £ 3 per annum to provide wine and cake in the green room of Drury Lane Theatre on Twelfth Night.

What was celebrated on " The Twelfth " was not William's " victory over Popery at the Battle of the Boyne ", but the extermination of the elite of the Catholic Irish at Aughrim, thereby ending the fear of having to surrender the planted lands.

* Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare

* Twelfth Night: Or What You Will ( director and adaptation ) ( 1996 )

* William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night, or What You Will ; Hamlet ( possible first performance )

His directing credits include Soulpepper's productions of Death of a Salesman, Twelfth Night, As you Like It, Oh What a Lovely War, The Caretaker, Waiting for Godot, No Man's Land, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Time of Your Life, and Susan Coyne's Kingfisher Days for the Tarragon Theatre.

* Twelfth Night, or What You Will ( 1998 )

Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will was written to be performed as a Twelfth Night entertainment.

Twelfth Night ; or, What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601 – 02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.

The title Twelfth Night, or What You Will prepares the audience for its jovial feel of festivities consisting of drink, dance, and giving in to general self-indulgence.

The full title of the play is Twelfth Night, or What You Will.

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** Twelfth Night ; or, What You Will

There are references to dances such as the galliard or sinkapace, lavolta, coranto, pavane, and canary, and stage directions indicate dancing in many plays including Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Macbeth, and As You Like It.

Sir Andrew Aguecheek ( also spelled Ague-cheek ) is a comic character in William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will.

Malvolio is the steward of Olivia's household in William Shakespeare's comedy, Twelfth Night, or What You Will.

* William Shakespeare, Trois comédies: Comme il vous plaira, La Nuit des rois, Le Conte d ' hiver, Comedies: As You like It, Twelfth Night, and The Winter's Tale translated by Anouilh and Claude Vincent ( Paris: La Table Ronde, 1952 ).

In addition to his many Shakespearean roles ( Jaques in As You Like It, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Polonius in Hamlet, Malvolio in Twelfth Night ), Hordern performed in plays by Strindberg, Chekhov, Ibsen, Pinero, Pinter, Dürrenmatt, Albee, Alan Ayckbourn, David Mercer and Tom Stoppard.

The role is thought to have been first played by Robert Armin, who typically played intelligent clown roles like Touchstone in As You Like It or Feste in Twelfth Night.

Armin is generally credited with all the " licensed fools " in the repertory of the Chamberlain's and King's Men: Touchstone in As You Like It, Feste in Twelfth Night, the Fool in King Lear, Lavatch in All's Well That Ends Well, and perhaps Thersites in Troilus and Cressida, the Porter in Macbeth, the Fool in Timon of Athens, and Autolycus in The Winter's Tale.

In 1934, while working under director Robert Atkins, she performed as Rosalind in As You Like It and Olivia in Twelfth Night.

They also claim an influence on Twelfth Night and As You Like It.

1600, like As You Like It and Twelfth Night, while the later revision injected the darker material – leaving the result a hybrid jumble of tones and intents.

Porter also had two roles in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, at the National Theatre in 1990 and played Olivia in Twelfth Night at the Shaw Theatre, and Rosalind in As You Like It at the Ludlow Festival.

Robinson was best known for her facility with the ' breeches parts ', her performances as Viola in Twelfth Night and Rosalind in As You Like It won her extensive praise.

Armin is generally credited with originating such characters as Feste in Twelfth Night, Touchstone in As You Like It, and the fool in King Lear.

The four of the five main female characters in his plays were seen as women who cross dress as men or boys ; Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Rosalind in As You Like It, Viola in Twelfth Night.