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       William ShakespeareSidney Lee

      TWELFTH NIGHT

      The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night Or, What You Will

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Table of Contents

       Twelfth Night

       DRAMATIS PERSONAE

       ACT I.

       ACT II.

       ACT III.

       ACT IV.

       ACT V.

       The Life of William Shakespeare

       PREFACE

       I—PARENTAGE AND BIRTH

       II—CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND MARRIAGE

       III—THE FAREWELL TO STRATFORD

       IV—ON THE LONDON STAGE

       V.—EARLY DRAMATIC EFFORTS

       VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC

       VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY

       VIII—THE BORROWED CONCEITS OF THE SONNETS

       IX—THE PATRONAGE OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON

       X—THE SUPPOSED STORY OF INTRIGUE IN THE SONNETS

       XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER

       XII—THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE

       XIII—MATURITY OF GENIUS

       XIV—THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY

       XV—THE LATEST PLAYS

       XVI—THE CLOSE OF LIFE

       XVII—SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS

       XVIII—AUTOGRAPHS, PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS

       XIX—BIBLIOGRAPHY

       XX—POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION

       XXI—GENERAL ESTIMATE

       APPENDIX

      Twelfth Night

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

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       ORSINO, Duke of Illyria

       SEBASTIAN, brother to Viola

       ANTONIO, a sea captain, friend to Sebastian

       A SEA CAPTAIN, friend to Viola

       VALENTINE, gentleman attending on the Duke

       CURIO, gentleman attending on the Duke

       SIR TOBY BELCH, uncle to Olivia

       SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK

       MALVOLIO, steward to Olivia

       FABIAN, servant to Olivia

       FESTE, a clown, servant to Olivia

       OLIVIA, a rich countess

       VIOLA

       MARIA, Olivia’s waiting woman

       Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other

       Attendants

       SCENE: A city in Illyria, and the seacoast near it

ACT I.

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      SCENE I. An apartment in the DUKE’S palace.

       [Enter DUKE, CURIO, and other LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.]

       DUKE.

       If music be the food of love, play on;

       Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,

       The appetite may sicken and so die.

       That strain again! It had a dying fall;

       O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound

       That breathes upon a bank of violets,

       Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more;

       ‘T is not so sweet now as it was before.

       O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!

       That, notwithstanding thy capacity

       Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,

       Of what validity and pitch soe’er,

       But falls