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Summary: a good play
Review: I enjoyed reading this play, even if I had some problems at the beginning. I read the two stories side by side, because the original text is too hard to understand but I think you have to read the old language of Shakespeare. The jokes are very funny even though they are really different from modern jokes. For me the most interesting person in this play was Feste, because he's probably the most intelligent person but he can still be funny and make foolish things. I can really recommend this play, and I'm sure I'm going to read some more plays by Shakespeare.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I must say it is a great book. I had never read Shakespeare before and I was really amazed about his writings. We read the book in modern English and it was easy to understand. I had my problems with the old English. I didn't understand very much but I think when you read Shakespeare you have to read it in English because the words are typical for his writings an it's only very Shakespeare in this "language". I like the action of the story. There are a lot of different characters (Viola, Orsino, Sir Toby, Maria and so on) and I think that makes the story interesting. At the beginning I couldn't imagine what would happen. Towards the end I could but that was not so bad. Although I don't normally like stories where I can already say after reading a few pages what will eventually happen. The content of the story is funny. The part with Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, Fabian and Malvolio is the funniest part. How Malvolio speaks when he has found the letter is very amusing..
I am going to read another Shakespeare play again because I think he is such a good playwright. What I din't like in this book is the end because suddenly the whole story is over so fast and they married and that's it. That's one thing that bothered me. But all in all it is a very funny play.
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Summary: Some Plays Achieve Greatness!
Review: Of all Shakespheare's plays I've read so far, I like Twelfth Night the best. I read it so many times I even lost my dependence on the modern language translation and I could read the Elizabethan language with the right conversational rhythm, losing all the awkwardness. I particularly liked the role of the snobby servant Malvolio, who tries to move up to the level of his Countess Olivia and leave his other "inferiors" behind. There is a couple of elaborate pranks being played upon characters in the play, in which Malvolio becomes one of the victims. Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria are the comic "team" that set these pranks in motion, all with amusing results. I just like the playfulness of these characters and their continual search for fun. The main plot of the play is little less interesting involving the old disguised, mistaken, or confused identity ploy that Shakespheare uses from time to time. This time out a woman named Viola is a character pretending to be a man who is sent to woo Countess Olivia for Duke Orsino. She has a brother that looks just like her, especially now since she is dressed like a man. Identity confusion ensues. Also the pranks of the subplot mesh with the main plot for an amusing end.
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Summary: A marvellous play full of intrigues and jokes
Review: Some time ago we started reading Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'. Unfortunately we were rather in a hurry and so I had to read the play once again when I had time off to really understand the jokes and enjoy the play. I often heard people saying that Shakespeare liked intrigues and used to write funny and sometimes even a bit obscene and rough plays. I found that rumour confirmed while reading 'Twelfth Night'. Nevertheless I liked the play and as our teacher procured a 'side-by-side with modern English' version of the play the initially unfamiliar Elizabethan English wasn't a reason to despair. As for me, I can recommend the play to everybody who likes comedies which are not to superficial. Sir Toby and Malvolio were surely my favourite characters. They are just killingly funny.
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Summary: An average good book
Review: Twelfth Night is in a way a good play, because it is very funny and rather easy to read. I also like that there is Shakespeare's language- and modern English version side by side. So you can read Shakespeare and if you don't understand something you can read it in modern English. So it's easy to understand.
But I don't like the plot. The two topics are love and mistakes by taking someone for someone he isn't really. So that's very boring. You know very early on how the play will end. The twins find together, Orsino "gets" Viola and Olivia "gets" Sebastian. It's to kitschy and I hate kitschy stories.
The person I like most is Feste, the clown. I knows all persons and is very intelligent, although all tell him his is only a fool. But I would say he is the only person of the play which is not a fool himself.
That's way I think it is an average good book. But for someone who likes kitschy stories it is perfect.
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Summary: A funny play
Review: When I read Romeo and Juliet a year ago, it was very interesting to see how Shakespeare writes. I read the original edition but for me it was too hard to understand. This time, when I read 12th Night, it was totally different. Our teacher gave us the edition "Shakespeare Made Easy", and I really had fun to read it. But I am sure that it isn't only the easy language which I liked more, it is also the play 12th Night itself, which makes it more attractive than Romeo and Juliet. I didn't know that Shakespeare had so a great sense of humour. It seems that all the actors are fools, and because of that, you like them all, even Malvolio, the villain of the play. For me it's the best English book I've ever red. I always had to laugh while I was reading it. I really recommend this book "Shakespeare Made Easy" because also those people who have some problems with the writing style of Shakespeare will learn to love his plays.
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