Twelfth Night (holiday)
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Twelfth Night is a Christian festival on the last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas, marking the end of Christmastide and the coming of the Epiphany. Different traditions mark the date of Twelfth
Mervyn Clitheroe's Twelfth Night party, by "Phiz"
Wassailing apple trees on the Twelfth Night to ensure a good harvest. Photo taken in Maplehurst, West Sussex
A Spanish Roscón de reyes, or Kings' ring. This pastry is just one of the many types baked around the world for celebrations during the Twelve Days of Christmas and Twelfth Night.
Cavalcade of Magi in Madrid
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
Twelfth Night (holiday)
…to 6 January on the Julian calendar at the time of the change in calendars enacted by the Calendar Act 1750. It is unknown whether Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will was written to be performed as a Twelfth Night entertainment, since there is no record of the circumstances of its composition. The earliest known…
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