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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 entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck.
A Short Analysis of Feste’s Song from Twelfth Night: ‘The rain it raineth every day’. This song, from one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, is sung by the Clown or Fool character, Feste, at the end of Twelfth Night.
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (c. 1601-02) is universally considered one of Shakespeare’s comedic masterpieces.
I see you what you are, you are too proud; But, if you were the devil, you are fair. 540 My lord and master loves you: O, such love Could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd The nonpareil of beauty! Olivia. How does he love me? Viola. With adorations, fertile tears, 545 With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. Olivia.
- O mistress mine [sung text checked 1 time] O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear, your true love's coming That can sing both high and low.
- Come away, come away, death [sung text checked 1 time] [Come away, come away, death]1, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
- I am gone, sir [sung text checked 1 time] I am gone, sir, And anon, sir, I'll be with you again, in a trice, Like to the old vice, Your need to sustain.
- When that I was and a little tiny boy [sung text checked 1 time] When that I was and a little tiny boy, [With]1 hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Oct 8, 2019 · Twelfth Night ends with Feste singing a song, ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’. Analysis: the background to Twelfth Night. Samuel Pepys went to see Twelfth Night three times – despite thinking it ‘a silly play’. In January 1663, he saw the play performed, and thought it was ‘acted well, though it be but a silly play, and not ...
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