!TWELFE NIGHT, or WHAT YOU WILL (ca. 1601-02)
The First Folio is sole authority for this play. Print-house copy appears to have been based on a scribal transcript “of uncertain origin” (TEXTUAL COMPANION, p.146).
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!!X AXIS (abscisses): 2580 lines
The division of ACTS & SCENES is that of the FOLIO.
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1.1: line 1 (reads "Act 1 scene 1 begins at line 1")
1.2: line 49
1.3: line 117
1.4: line 249
1.5: line 295
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2.1: line 610
2.2: line 655
2.3: line 698
2.4: line 882
2.5: line 1015
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3.1: line 1212
3.2: line 1380
3.3: line 1465
3.4: line 1520
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4.1: line 1917
4.2: line 1984
4.3: line 2113
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5.1: line 2152
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FINIS @ line 2580
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Y AXIS: ENTRANCES & EXITS
Entrances & exits of Characters
According to their order of appearance.
• (2,48) reads "enters at line 2, exits at line 48".
• DISGUISED as Sir Topaz (2003,2045)
is inserted at the end of a character’s list (in this case Feste’s) to indicate the “duration” of said disguise.
• (1016 [hides 1037,1182] 1210)
reads “character enters at line 1016, hides from line 1037 to line 1182, and exits at line 1210”.
• PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS are capitalized.
DUKE ORSINO
(2,48) (257,294) (883,1014) (2160,2558)
Curio (attendant of Orsino)
(2,48) (257,294) (883,897) (930,965) (2160,2558)
Valentine (attendant of Orsino)
(2,48) (250,294)
VIOLA (a.k.a Cesario, twin sister of Sebastian)
(50,116) (250,294) (461,583) (656,697) (883,1014) (1213,1379) (1713,1790) (1808,1905) (2160,2558) DISGUISED as Caesario (250,2419)
Captain
(50,116)
SIR TOBY BELCH
(118,248) (407,422) (699,881) (1016 [hides 1037,1182] 1210) (1280,1305) (1381,1464) (1606,1717) (1736,1776) (1791,1916) (1941,1968) (1996,2056) (2352,2370)
MARIA (attendant of Olivia)
(118,193) (296,324) (391,400) (458,512) (770,867) (1028,1037) (1188,1210) (1296,1305) (1445,1464) (1521,1534) (1606,1717) (1985,2056)
SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK
(160,248) (699,881) (1016 [hides 1037,1182] 1210) (1280,1305) (1381,1432) (1663,1700) (1791,1914) (1941,1968) (2335,2370)
FESTE (a clown)
(296,431) (714,881) (930,964) (1213,1270) (1918,1947)
(1985,2112) DISGUISED as Sir Topaz (2003,2045)
LADY OLIVIA
(325,609) (1296,1379) (1521,1586) (1713,1735) (1961,1983) (2136,2150) (2250,2558)
MALVOLIO (Olivia’s steward)
(325,402) (432,457) (595,604) (656,672) (784,819) (1038,1181) (1535,1647) (2005,2112) (2494,2548)
ANTONIO (friend of Sebastian)
(611,654) (1466,1519) (1827,1893) (2200,2558)
SEBASTIAN (twin brother of Viola)
(611,654) (1466,1519) (1918,1983) (2114,2150) (2372,2558)
FABIAN (servant of Olivia)
(1016 [hides 1037,1182] 1210) (1381,1464) (1606,1717) (1736,1790) (1808,1916) (1941,1968) (2153,2558)
Priest
(2136,2150) (2311,2558)
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PLOTS & COLOURING
The play has a plot and a subplot:
• The plot essentially consists of the love triangle involving ORSINO, VIOLA and OLIVIA. Duke Orsino loves Lady Olivia who loves Orsino’s emissary Caesario (the disguised Viola) who loves Orsino. And, like the COMEDY OF ERRORS, the play concludes with a series of mix-ups between VIOLA (Cesario) and her twin brother SEBASTIAN (both of whom believe that the other was lost in a shipwreck).
• The Subplot consists in the “gulling” of the self-important MALVOLIO by MARIA, SIR TOBY, SIR ANDREW, & FABIAN.
FESTE, the clown, navigates freely between the two plots.
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METATHEATRE
As indicated in the ENTRANCES & EXITS above, two characters are disguised:
VIOLA is DISGUISED as Caesario (250,2419)
FESTE is DISGUISED as Sir Topaz (2003,2045)
