von William Shakespeare
Die Zwillinge Viola und Sebastian erleiden Schiffsbruch und jeder denkt, dass der andere umgekommen ist. Trauernd versuchen sie in Illyrien ein neues Leben anzufangen.
Bald sind beide in die Liebeswirrungen und Intrigen der Landesbewohner verwickelt – Graf Orsino, der hoffnungslos in Olivia verliebt ist... Olivias betrunkener Onkel Sir Toby und sein schwacher Schützling Sir Andrew... und der steife Diener Malvolio, der vom weisen Clown Feste lächerlich gemacht wird.
Als Viola und Sebastian sich endlich wiederfinden mündet diese bittersüße Komödie in Shakespeares allerschönstem Happy End – die Liebe siegt!
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Textauszug aus 'Twelfth Night'
| Viola: | Ay, but I know - |
| Duke Orsino: | What dost thou know? |
| Viola: | Too well what love women to men may owe: In faith, they are as true of heart as we. My father had a daughter loved a man, As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman, I should your lordship. |
| Duke Orsino: | And what's her history? |
| Viola: | A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more: but indeed Our shows are more than will; for still we prove Much in our vows, but little in our love. |
| Duke Orsino: | But died thy sister of her love, my boy? |
| Viola: | I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too: and yet I know not. |