Twelfth night is named after a traditional western festival. The last night of the Christian Christmas holiday is the twelfth night, which is the epiphany on 1 6. However, there is nothing related to this festival or Christmas in the whole script. In Elizabethan England, Epiphany became a carnival day, so the title of Twelfth Night may imply a carnival world divorced from reality. Any bizarre event does not need a reasonable explanation, and all unreasonable endings can be established. For example, at the beginning of the story, Olivia firmly said that she had been in mourning for her father and brother for seven years, never married for seven years, and had never seen an outsider. She fell in love with Viola as soon as she saw her. Ossino thought Viola was a footman a few minutes ago, but she immediately accepted the fact that she wore men's clothes and decided to marry him.
The play really premiered in Twelfth Night. Hawthorne once wrote a book called "The First Night of Twelfth Night", which described the premiere of the play. Hawthorne believes that Shakespeare was ordered by the royal family to write this play in response to Ossino, Duke of Blasio's visit to Britain, and it was performed on the twelfth night after Christmas in 1600 (i.e. 65438+ June 6th of the following year). However, the news of the Duke's visit did not reach England until February 26th, 65438. If what Hawthorne said is true, that is to say, in a short period of eleven or two days, Shakespeare has written the script, and all the actors have memorized their lines and completed the rehearsal.