{"product_id":"twelfth-night-isbn-9780553213089","title":"Twelfth Night","description":"Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming “Count Malvolio” only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymakers he wishes to suppress. The two plots combine to create a farce touched with melancholy, mixed throughout with seductively beautiful explorations on the themes of love and time, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s sad song. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach Edition Includes:\u003cbr\u003e• Comprehensive explanatory notes \u003cbr\u003e• Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship \u003cbr\u003e• Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English\u003cbr\u003e• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories \u003cbr\u003e• An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e (1564–1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language. Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare's vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets. His dramatic works have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bevington\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the world's most well-respected Shakespearean scholars. He has served as an editor of several widely acclaimed anthologies, such as \u003ci\u003eEnglish Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, Bantam Shakespeare, Medieval Drama, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare. \u003c\/i\u003eSince 1967 Bevington has taught at the University of Chicago, specializing in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as Renaissance, medieval, and Western drama. Bevington serves as the chair of theater and performance studies and is a Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the humanities and in English language and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Scott Kastan\u003c\/b\u003e is a noted scholar of early modern English literature and culture. He is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, where he specializes in Shakespeare, Milton, and literary history. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2008, Kastan taught at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, University College London, Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Copenhagen, and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Kastan has served as an editor on many Elizabethan, Renaissance, and Shakespearean anthologies. His own scholarly publications include \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Shapes of Time, Shakespeare After Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Book\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Dramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrsino, Duke (sometimes called Count) of Illyria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValentine, gentleman attending on Orsino \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurio, gentleman attending on Orsino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViola, a shipwrecked lady, later disguised as Cesario\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSebastian, twin brother of Viola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntonio, a sea captain, friend to Sebastian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain of the shipwrecked vessel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlivia, a rich countess of Illyria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria, gentlewoman in Olivia's household\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby belch, Olivia's uncle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew Aguecheek, a companion of Sir Toby\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalvolio, steward of Olivia's household\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFabian, a member of Olivia's household\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeste, a clown, also called fool, Olivia's jester\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea priest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efirst officer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecond officer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLords, Sailors, Musicians, and other Attendants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escene: Illyria]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1 Location: Orsino's court.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e0.1 Illyria Nominally on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, but with a suggestion also of \"illusion\" and \"delirium.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 fall cadence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 quick and fresh keen and hungry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 validity value.   pitch superiority. (Literally the highest point of a falcon's flight.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 abatement depreciation. (The lover's brain entertains innumerable fantasies but soon tires of them all.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 shapes imagined forms.   fancy love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 it . . . fantastical it surpasses everything else in imaginative power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 the noblest . . . have i.e., my noblest part, my heart. (Punning on hart.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21 fell fierce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22 pursue me (Alludes to the story in Ovid of Actaeon, who, having seen Diana bathing, was transformed into a stag and killed by his own hounds.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1  A  Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elords [with musicians].\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrsino\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf music be the food of love, play on;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive me excess of it, that surfeiting,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe appetite may sicken and so die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat strain again! It had a dying fall; 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat breathes upon a bank of violets,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStealing and giving odor. Enough, no more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat, notwithstanding thy capacity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReceiveth as the sea, naught enters there,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf what validity and pitch Soe'er, 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut falls into abatement and low price 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat it alone is high fantastical. 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecurio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill you go hunt, my lord?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrsino What, Curio?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecurio The hart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrsino\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy, so I do, the noblest that I have. 17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMethought she purged the air of pestilence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat instant was I turned into a hart,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, 21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE'er since pursue me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter Valentine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e How now, what news from her? 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25 element sky.   seven years' heat seven summers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27 Cloistress nun secluded in a religious community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29 season keep fresh. (Playing on the idea of the salt in her tears.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30 A brother's dead love her love for her dead brother and the memory of his love for her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e32 frame construction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e34 golden shaft Cupid's golden-tipped arrow, causing love. (His lead-tipped arrow causes aversion.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e35 affections else other feelings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e36-8 when . . . king i.e., when passion, thought, and feeling all sit in majesty in their proper thrones (liver, brain, and heart), and her sweet perfections are brought to completion by her union with a single lord and husband.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.2 Location: The seacoast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Elysium classical abode of the blessed dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5-6 Perchance . . . perchance Perhaps . . . by mere chance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evalentine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo please my lord, I might not be admitted,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut from her handmaid do return this answer:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe element itself, till seven years' heat, 25\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShall not behold her face at ample view;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut like a cloistress she will veiled walk, 27\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd water once a day her chamber round\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith eye-offending brine--all this to season 29\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh 30\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd lasting in her sad remembrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrsino\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, she that hath a heart of that fine frame 32\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo pay this debt of love but to a brother,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow will she love, when the rich golden shaft 34\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHath killed the flock of all affections else 35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat live in her; when liver, brain, and heart, 36\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and filled 37\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer sweet perfections, with one self king! 38\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAway before me to sweet beds of flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExeunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.2  A  Enter Viola, a Captain, and sailors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViola  What country, friends, is this?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain  This is Illyria, lady.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd what should I do in Illyria?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy brother he is in Elysium. 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerchance he is not drowned. What think you, sailors? 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is perchance that you yourself were saved. 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, my poor brother! And so perchance may he be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 chance i.e., what one may hope that chance will bring about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 driving drifting, driven by the seas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 lived i.e., kept afloat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 Arion a Greek poet who so charmed the dolphins with his lyre that they saved him when he leaped into the sea to escape murderous sailors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19-21 unfoldeth . . . him offers a hopeful example that he may have escaped similarily, to which hope your speech provides support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30 late lately\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e32 murmur rumor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e33 less social inferiors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrue, madam, and to comfort you with chance, 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssure yourself, after our ship did split,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen you and those poor number saved with you\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost provident in peril, bind himself,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCourage and hope both teaching him the practice,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo a strong mast that lived upon the sea; 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere, like Arion on the dolphin's back, 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI saw him hold acquaintance with the waves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo long as I could see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eviola  For saying so, there's gold. [She gives money.]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMine own escape unfoldeth to my hope, 19\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhereto thy speech serves for authority, 20\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe like of him. Know'st thou this country? 21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAy, madam, well, for I was bred and born\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot three hours' travel from this very place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eviola  Who governs here?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain  A noble duke, in nature as in name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eviola  What is his name?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain  Orsino.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eviola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrsino! I have heard my father name him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was a bachelor then.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so is now, or was so very late; 30\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor but a month ago I went from hence,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then 'twas fresh in murmur--as, you know, 32\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat great ones do the less will prattle of-- 33\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat he did seek the love of fair Olivia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eviola  What's she?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA virtuous maid, the daughter of a count\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e42 delivered revealed, made known. (With suggestion of \"born.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e43 Till . . . mellow until the time is ripe for my purpose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e44 estate social rank.   compass encompass, bring about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e46 not not even\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e48 though that though\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e51 character face or features as indicating moral qualities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e54-5 as haply . . . intent as may suit the nature of my purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e56 eunuch castrato, high-voiced singer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e59 allow prove\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e61 wit plan, invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e62 mute silent attendant. (Sometimes used of nonspeaking actors.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the protection of his son, her brother,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho shortly also died; for whose dear love,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey say, she hath abjured the sight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd company of men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eviola Oh, that I served that lady,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd might not be delivered to the world 42\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTill I had made mine own occasion mellow, 43\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat my estate is!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain That were hard to compass, 44\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause she will admit no kind of suit,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, not the Duke's. 46\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eviola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a fair behavior in thee, Captain,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd though that nature with a beauteous wall 48\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoth oft close in pollution, yet of thee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI will believe thou hast a mind that suits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this thy fair and outward character. 51\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConceal me what I am, and be my aid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor such disguise as haply shall become 54\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe form of my intent. I'll serve this duke. 55\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThou shalt present me as an eunuch to him. 56\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt may be worth thy pains, for I can sing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd speak to him in many sorts of music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat will allow me very worth his service. 59\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat else may hap, to time I will commit;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly shape thou thy silence to my wit. 61\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBe you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be; 62\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eviola  I thank thee. Lead me on. Exeunt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.3 Location: Olivia's house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 cousin kinswoman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 let . . . excepted i.e., let her take exception to my conduct all she wants; I don't care. (Plays on the legal phrase exceptis excipiendis, \"with the exceptions before named.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 modest moderate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 I'll . . . finer (1) I'll constrain myself no more rigorously (2) I'll dress myself no more finely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 An If\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20 tall brave. (But Maria pretends to take the word in the common sense.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22 ducats coins worth about four or five shillings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23 he'll . . . ducats he'll spend all his money within a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25-6 viol-de-gamboys viola da gamba, leg-viol, bass viol\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27 without book by heart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29 natural (With a play on the sense \"born idiot.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e31 gift natural ability. (But shifted to mean \"present\" in line 33.)   allay the gust moderate the taste\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.3  A  Enter Sir Toby [Belch] and Maria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  What a plague means my niece to take the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeath of her brother thus? I am sure care's an enemy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eo'nights. Your cousin, my lady, takes great exceptions  5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto your ill hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  Why, let her except before excepted. 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  Ay, but you must confine yourself within the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emodest limits of order. 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  Confine? I'll confine myself no finer than I am.  10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethese boots too. An they be not, let them hang them-  12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eselves in their own straps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  That quaffing and drinking will undo you. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eheard my lady talk of it yesterday, and of a foolish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eknight that you brought in one night here to be her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewooer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  Ay, he.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria. 20\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  What's that to the purpose?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  Why, he has three thousand ducats a year. 22\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats.  23\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's a very fool and a prodigal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  Fie, that you'll say so! He plays o'th' viol-de-  25\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egamboys, and speaks three or four languages word  26\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor word without book, and hath all the good gifts of  27\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  He hath indeed, almost natural, for, besides that  29\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehe's a fool, he's a great quarreler, and but that he hath\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in quar-  31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e34-5 substractors detractors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e40 coistrel horsegroom, base fellow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e42 parish top a large top provided by the parish to be spun by whipping, apparently for exercise.   Castiliano vulgo! (Of uncertain meaning. Possibly Sir Toby is saying \"Speak of the devil!\" Castiliano is the name adopted by a devil in Haughton's Grim the Collier of Croydon.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e43 Agueface (Like Aguecheek, this name betokens the thin, pale countenance of one suffering from an ague or fever.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e46 shrew i.e., diminutive creature. (But with probably unintended suggestion of shrewishness.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e48 Accost Go alongside (a nautical term), i.e., greet her, address her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e50 chambermaid lady-in-waiting (a gentlewoman, not one who would do menial tasks).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e55 front confront, come alongside\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e56 board greet, approach (as though preparing to board in a naval encounter)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e57 undertake have to do with. (Here with unintended sexual suggestion, to which Maria mirthfully replies with her jokes about dry jests, barren, and buttery-bar.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e60 An . . . part If you let her leave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereling, 'tis thought among the prudent he would\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equickly have the gift of a grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  By this hand, they are scoundrels and sub-  34\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estractors that say so of him. Who are they? 35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyour company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  With drinking healths to my niece. I'll drink\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto her as long as there is a passage in my throat and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edrink in Illyria. He's a coward and a coistrel that will  40\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot drink to my niece till his brains turn o'th' toe like\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea parish top. What, wench? Castiliano vulgo! For here  42\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomes Sir Andrew Agueface. 43\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter Sir Andrew [Aguecheek].\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew  Sir Toby Belch! How now, Sir Toby Belch?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  Sweet Sir Andrew!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew [to Maria]  Bless you, fair shrew. 46\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  And you too, sir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  Accost, Sir Andrew, accost. 48\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew  What's that?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  My niece's chambermaid. 50\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew  Good Mistress Accost, I desire better\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacquaintance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  My name is Mary, sir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew  Good Mistress Mary Accost--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  You mistake, knight. \"Accost\" is front her,  55\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eboard her, woo her, assail her. 56\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew  By my troth, I would not undertake her in  57\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis company. Is that the meaning of \"accost\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  Fare you well, gentlemen. [Going.]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou  60\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emightst never draw sword again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew  An you part so, mistress, I would I might\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e64 have . . . hand i.e., have to deal with fools. (But Maria puns on the literal sense.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e66 Marry i.e., Indeed. (Originally, \"By the Virgin Mary.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e68 thought is free i.e., I may think what I like. (Proverbial; replying to do you think . . . in hand, above.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e69 buttery-bar ledge on top of the half-door to the buttery or the wine cellar. (Maria's language is sexually suggestive, though Sir Andrew seems oblivious to that.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e72 dry thirsty; also dried up, a sign of age and sexual debility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e75 dry (1) ironic (2) dull, barren. (Referring to Sir Andrew.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e77 at my fingers' ends (1) at the ready (2) by the hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e78 barren i.e., empty of jests and of Sir Andrew's hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e79 thou . . . canary i.e., you look as if you need a drink. (Canary is a sweet wine from the Canary Islands.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e82 put me down (1) baffle my wits (2) lay me out flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e89 Pourquoi Why\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e91 tongues languages. (Sir Toby then puns on \"tongs,\" curling irons.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e92 bearbaiting the sport of setting dogs on a chained bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e93 the arts the liberal arts, learning. (But Sir Toby plays on the phrase as meaning \"artifice,\" the antithesis of nature.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enever draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave fools in hand?  64\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  Sir, I have not you by the hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew  Marry, but you shall have, and here's my  66\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehand. [He gives her his hand.]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  Now, sir, thought is free. I pray you, bring your  68\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehand to th' buttery-bar, and let it drink. 69\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew  Wherefore, sweetheart? What's your\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emetaphor?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  It's dry, sir. 72\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew  Why, I think so. I am not such an ass but\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  A dry jest, sir. 75\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Andrew  Are you full of them?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria  Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends. Marry,  77\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enow I let go your hand, I am barren. 78\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[She lets go his hand.] Exit Maria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Toby  Oh, knight, thou lack'st a cup of canary! When  79\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edid I see thee so put down?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300266496229,"sku":"NP9780553213089","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780553213089.jpg?v=1767743056","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/twelfth-night-isbn-9780553213089","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}