summarize the twelfth night in 3-4 pages
Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, thought to have been composed at the end of the Christmas season around 1601-1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment. The play focuses on the Viola and Sebastian twins, who are separated by a shipwreck. Viola falls in love with Duke Orsino (who is disguised as Cesario), who, in exchange, is in love with Countess Olivia. Countess Olivia falls in love with her assumption that she is a guy after meeting Viola
The play expanded on the anticipated musical interludes and riotous chaos of the occasion, with plot elements taken from Barnabe Rich's short storey "Of Apollonius and Silla," based on a tale by Matteo Bandello. At Candlemas, the official end of Christmastide in the year's calendar, the first recorded public performance was on 2 February 1602. Before its inclusion in the 1623 First Folio, the play was not written..
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