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Twelfth Night .... is about all kinds of Main and sub plots ---... and sadness, laughter and cruelty. It has essentially two plots: a main plot, typical of a romantic comedy in the Renaissance; and a subplot, which is essentially comic. The main plot -- the story of Orsino and Viola and Olivia and Sebastian -- features lost siblings united and lovers joined in marriage; it throws in some mistaken identities and women disguised as boys, which were also typical of a romantic play during this time (Shakespeare used the motif several times in other plays). It has a happy ending, with all four lovers marrying their own true love (and a person of the correct sex), and all of them poised to live happily ever after. The play is set on Twelfth Night, a holiday which derives from the medieval practice of celebrating Christmas for the entire period between Christmas Eve and Epiphany, January 6. Everything was deliberately turned upside down;...

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