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  1. shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org › elizabethanNotes Towards an Elizabethan Twelfth Night | Shakespeare ...

    Oct 3, 2013 · According to Elizabeth Jenkins in Elizabeth the Great he twice refused – without rebuke – a command from the Queen’s lips to dance for some French ambassadors. She compares his self-centeredness to Hamlet’s.

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  3. revisionworld.com › level-revision › englishHistorical Context (Twelfth Night) - Revision World

    Twelfth Night was written in 1601 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, a period known as the Elizabethan Era (1558–1603). This was a time of relative peace, prosperity, and artistic flourishing in England, particularly in the world of theatre, with Shakespeare being a central figure.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Twelfth_NightTwelfth Night - Wikipedia

    Some scholars argue that Twelfth Night, or What You Will (the play's full title) was probably commissioned for performance as part of the Twelfth Night celebrations held by Queen Elizabeth I at Whitehall Palace on 6 January 1601 to mark the end of the embassy of the Italian diplomat, the Duke of Orsino. [22]

  5. internetshakespeare.uvic.ca › doc › TN_GenIntroTwelfth Night: Introduction :: Internet Shakespeare Editions

    Leslie Hotson's ingenious argument that Twelfth Night was first performed on Twelfth Night (i.e., 6 January) 1601 at court, on the occasion of the visit to Queen Elizabeth of a duke whose family name was Orsino, cannot be supported. But if Shakespeare borrowed the name for his own duke, it adds some weight to a supposition that 1601 is the most ...

  6. www.savemyexams.com › twelfth-night-contextTwelfth Night: Context | Edexcel GCSE English Literature ...

    Oct 19, 2024 · Shakespeare plays dating from before April 1603 are considered Elizabethan as they were written and performed at the time Queen Elizabeth I was on the English throne. Twelfth Night was written in approximately 1602 and is therefore an Elizabethan comedy.

  7. internetshakespeare.uvic.ca › doc › TN_GenIntroTwelfth Night: Introduction :: Internet Shakespeare Editions

    Twelfth Night In the Elizabethan Theater Music "If music be the food of love, play on" (TLN 5 {1.1.1}). The first sounds an audience hears in Twelfth Night are not words, but music. Would the audience at the first performance, probably sometime in 1601 at the Globe theater, have seen the musicians?

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  9. www.enotes.com › topics › twelfth-nightTwelfth Night Analysis - eNotes.com

    Believed by the Elizabethans to also be the day of Jesus Christ’s baptism, the Twelfth Night was an even more important holiday in Shakespeare’s time than Christmas itself. In (partial)...