Twelfth Nightby William Shakespeare
Presented by Garan
Footnote-free narrative incorporating
Shakespeare’s dialogue
Shakespeare’s dialogue
In a prospering seaside realm, a duke and a countess have been indulging notions: he has decided she is to be his wife; she has vowed to forego marriage.
Among her householders, two questless knights carouse nightly, despite efforts of the lady’s waiting-gentlewoman to keep the peace, and they annoy the prim, officious steward. Countess Olivia’s bright jester brings dry humor to both courts: he’s moonlighting—saving money in hopes of marrying a woman at Duke Orsino’s.
Just when one knight’s parasitic decadence has upset the tenuously balanced calm, a shipwreck brings two young strangers to Illyria. The duke soon recruits one of them to serve as his surrogate suitor. The countess has already rejected Orsino, but she is strongly attracted to his vivacious emissary—a woman disguised as a man.
Rascality and trickery enliven the fast action when the imposter, who has fallen in love with the duke, makes dutiful attempts to court Olivia—who falls in love with the man the stranger seems to be.
Still, wrongdoing is chastised, prisoners are freed, and good hearts unite to prevail in this delightful gambol.
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Among her householders, two questless knights carouse nightly, despite efforts of the lady’s waiting-gentlewoman to keep the peace, and they annoy the prim, officious steward. Countess Olivia’s bright jester brings dry humor to both courts: he’s moonlighting—saving money in hopes of marrying a woman at Duke Orsino’s.
Just when one knight’s parasitic decadence has upset the tenuously balanced calm, a shipwreck brings two young strangers to Illyria. The duke soon recruits one of them to serve as his surrogate suitor. The countess has already rejected Orsino, but she is strongly attracted to his vivacious emissary—a woman disguised as a man.
Rascality and trickery enliven the fast action when the imposter, who has fallen in love with the duke, makes dutiful attempts to court Olivia—who falls in love with the man the stranger seems to be.
Still, wrongdoing is chastised, prisoners are freed, and good hearts unite to prevail in this delightful gambol.
Read it online by clicking here
To download it for free:
In Microsoft Word format (.doc), click here
In portable document format (.pdf), click here
In Web browsers’ hypertext markup language (.html), click here
In rich text format (.rtf), click here
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