The First Night of Twelfth NightA reconstruction of the circumstances surrounding the play's first performance at the Twelfth Night festivities at Whitehall in 1601. |
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... entertainment of the Muscovite ambassador and of an Ita- lian nobleman , the Duke of Brachiana , who were received at the Court of Queen Elizabeth , together with the names of the noblemen in attendance on her Majesty at her dining ...
... entertainment of the Muscovite ambassador and of an Ita- lian nobleman , the Duke of Brachiana , who were received at the Court of Queen Elizabeth , together with the names of the noblemen in attendance on her Majesty at her dining ...
Page 100
... entertainments , unreasonably sour . Just a year before this Christmas , a courtier had presented a versified New Year's offering to his Queen , embodying ' an invective against the Puritans ... the danger of in- novations , the poison ...
... entertainments , unreasonably sour . Just a year before this Christmas , a courtier had presented a versified New Year's offering to his Queen , embodying ' an invective against the Puritans ... the danger of in- novations , the poison ...
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... entertainment given in so gracious manner , and so honourable , by her Majesty unto the Russ Ambassador was done to very good purpose ; and I do not think but that he [ Mikulin ] enlargeth it to the uttermost , for more he reporteth ...
... entertainment given in so gracious manner , and so honourable , by her Majesty unto the Russ Ambassador was done to very good purpose ; and I do not think but that he [ Mikulin ] enlargeth it to the uttermost , for more he reporteth ...
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alss audience Banbury beij Ben Jonson Boris Cardinal Cavalieri Cecil Celsità Chamber Chapel Christmas comedy Court courtiers Cynthia's Revels dancing daselbsten dine dinner Don Virginio Don Virginio Orsino Duke Orsino Earl England English entertainment envoy Essex favour feast Feste Feste's Fitton Flavia Florence fool France French gentlemen gnedig Grand Duke Grigori and Ivashko Hall hath Henry honour Hunsdon I. K. Mt Illyrian INDIANENSIS Italian Jonson King Knollys Lady Olivia letter London Lord Chamberlain Maestà Majesty Majesty's Mall Malvolio mansions Maria Mary Fitton master MDCCCXX Medici Mikulin Muscovite noble palace play players Pope present Prince Queen Elizabeth Queen's side Regina Revels Rome royal Russian scene Shakespeare SIGILLUM Signor Sir Andrew Sir Jerome Bowes Sir Toby Sir Toby's Sir Walter Ralegh Sir William Knollys stage thou Tiltyard Tsar Tuscany Twelfth Day Twelfth Night UNIVERSITATIS LUX VERITAS Whitehall WHITEHALL PALACE Wolfgang Wilhelm wüder young