Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria and she comes ashore with the help of a captain. The play was not published until its inclusion in the 1623 First Folio.Ī depiction of Olivia by Edmund Leighton from The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare's Heroines The first documented public performance was on 2 February 1602, at Candlemas, the formal end of Christmastide in the year's calendar. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man.
Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with the Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with Countess Olivia. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. Scene from 'Twelfth Night' (' Malvolio and the Countess'), Daniel Maclise (1840)
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