With a foreword by Bea Fitzgerald, author of A Beautiful Evil and The End Crowns All.
'O time, thou must untangle this, not I.'
Rediscover Shakespeare's tale of crossed loves and mistaken identities.
Love gets complicated.
After a catastrophic shipwreck, identical twins Viola and Sebastian are separated, each believing that the other is dead. To get her life back on track, Viola begins dressing as a man and working for Duke Orsino - mostly passing love letters to his beau, Countess Olivia. Unfortunately, Viola fancies the Duke for herself, and Olivia has fallen for Viola!
All it would take was another Viola in play to set the whole thing unravelling ...
Discover STAGED, a limited collection of Shakespeare's unabridged plays...
William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which number among the most profound and influential love poetry in English. Shakespeare died in Stratford in 1616.
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