Named for the Twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power.
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The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships.
Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia--only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger.
Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino\'s service.
Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned.
Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino.
Named for the Twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power
