Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1602)

Original id: 
11574
Start date: 
2 February 1602
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Adaptation
Production notes: 
Comedy. Orsino likens himself to Actaeon at 1.1.18-22. (Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.138-269.) Date of 1st performance uncertain. Composed 1600-02. Published 1623, London. Collected in First Folio, London: Jaggard, 1624.
Media of production: 
Stage-play
Languages: 
English
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Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script Author(s)
Metamorphoses Ovid
Person Role Notes
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Writer
Source Format Location if held at the APGRD Pagination
Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s. Vol.1 Book library 19 Riverside 1974 / Barkan 1980, pp.340f. / Davies 1986, p.111

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