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These two twins are shipwrecked in Illyria.
Who are Viola & Sebastian?
The nobleman whose name is a synonym for the results of drinking.
Who is Sir Toby Belch?
This is the writer of these most famous words: “[B]e not afraid of greatness. / Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and / some have greatness thrust upon ‘em” (2.5.148-50).
Who is Maria?
The Fool’s Name.
Who is Feste?
This woman not only accuses another woman of giving her a ring that is already her own, but actually returns it by messenger.
Who is the Countess Olivia?
These three individuals write letters in Twelfth Night.
Who are Maria, Andrew, and Malvolio?
This is the character who, ironically, first delivers the news to Orsino that the Countess Olivia will NOT hear his suit.
Who is Valentine?
This is the longing lover who speaks these words: “If music be the food of love, play on” (1.1.1).
Who is Orsino?
The fool knowingly or unknowingly describes this individual when he sings of a truelove “that can sing both high and low” (2.3.41-42).
Who is Viola/Cesario?
This is the character at whom Fabian laughs when he speaks these words: “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction” (3.4.136-37).
Who is (Mad) Malvolio?
This is the meaning of "twelfth" in Twelfth Night.
What is the twelfth day after Christmas?
This character is a plague.
Who is Sir Andrew Aguecheek?
This is the speaker of these words: “I am not what I am” (3.1.148).
Who is Viola?
Who is Viola?
Feste sings a song inviting death ("Come away, come away, death" (2.4.58)) for fear of being "slain by a fair cruel maid” (2.4.61) to this lonely lover.
Who is Count Orsino?
This person freely gives his purse to another, but is mad--or wonders if the individual to whom he gave it is mad--when he can’t get it back in a moment of need.
Who is Antonio?
These two gentleMEN woo Countess Olivia.
Who are Count Orsino and Sir Andrew Aguecheek?
This character's name means "bad will."
Who is Malvolio?
The speaker of these words that became a cry of westward expansion across the United States of America: “[W]estward ho!” (3.1.142).
Who is Viola?
When the fool’s song urges lovers to marry with these lines, “In delay there lies no plenty / Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty / Youth’s a stuff will not endure” (2.3.51-53), he could be singing a cautionary tale to either of these two characters.
Who are the Countess Olivia and Sir Toby Belch?
With these words, this individual agrees to marry after mere minutes of being acquainted: “I am mad–or else the lady’s mad” (4.3.15-16)
Who is Sebastian?
These two individuals save other characters in the play from death by duel.
Who are Antonio and Olivia?
Twelfth Night marks the moment in which the three kings visited the baby Jesus. This character's name means little king.
Who is Cesario?
This is the speaker of the moral of the play: “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” (2.3.114-15).
Who is Sir Toby Belch?
The fool sings this refrain about inclement weather to bring the play to its close.
“For the rain it raineth every day” (5.1.427)
These three mad marriages are planned or take place before the play is over.
Who are Maria & Sir Toby Belch, the Countess Olivia & Sebastian, & Viola & Count Orsino.