Twelfth Night
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The
Malvolio and the Countess by Daniel Maclise (1840)
Scene from Twelfth Night, by Francis Wheatley (1771–72)
A depiction of Olivia by Edmund Leighton from The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare's Heroines
Sir Toby Belch coming to the assistance of Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Arthur Boyd Houghton, c. 1854
Viola (Twelfth Night)
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Viola is the protagonist of the play Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare.
Twelfth Night
…believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (disguised as a page named 'Cesario') falls in love with the Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love…
Viola (in orange, left) as Cesario; Olivia (in yellow, right). William Hamilton c. 1797
Frederick Richard Pickersgill's painting of Orsino and Viola, mid-1800s
Viola and the Countess (F. R. Pickersgill, 1859)