ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck.

Detailed explanation-2: -Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy, and romantic love is the play’s main focus. Despite the fact that the play offers a happy ending, in which the various lovers find one another and achieve wedded bliss, Shakespeare shows that love can cause pain.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earliest (1594 or earlier), Twelfth Night from his rich middle period (1600-1601), and Pericles from around 1608.

Detailed explanation-4: -Happiness through Marriages: Twelfth Night possesses certain features which are common to all romantic comedies of Shakespeare. It is based on love leading to marriage. Almost all the characters are the patients of the same disease-love. The fifth act brings them all happiness through marriage.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” or “What you Will” include blending of realism and imagination. It is a typical element of his comedies and he draws the real life characters set up in an ethereal world of “Illyria”.