Twelfth Night

Summary

"Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare is a romantic comedy written around 1601–1602. After a shipwreck separates twins Viola and Sebastian, Viola disguises herself as a young man and enters the service of Duke Orsino. A tangled web of mistaken identity unfolds: Viola loves Orsino, who loves Countess Olivia, who falls for Viola in disguise. Meanwhile, Olivia's household conspirators play an elaborate trick on her pompous steward Malvolio, leading to chaos and confusion before all identities are finally revealed. (This is an automatically generated summary.)