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Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian , who are separated in a shipwreck.
Twelfth Night (also known as Epiphany Eve depending upon the tradition) is a Christian festival on the last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas, marking the coming of the Epiphany. [1] Different traditions mark the date of Twelfth Night as either 5 January or 6 January , depending on whether the counting begins on Christmas Day or 26 December .
The Twelfth Night Feast is a relatively large 1662 oil painting by Jan Steen, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which bought it in 1945. [ 1 ] The picture depicts the Twelfth Night celebrations marking the end of the Christmas festivities and the beginning of Epiphany .
The greetings of "Happy Christmas" which remind us of the artless mirth of the shepherds on that holy night; the Christmas tree, often with a source of joy to the poor, representatives of Christ in the property of His manger bed; Christmas gifts recalling God's great gift of His Son to us on the first Christmas night; the Twelfth-Night cake ...
The revelries of Saturnalia were supposed to reflect the conditions of the lost mythical age. The Greek equivalent was the Kronia, [4] which was celebrated on the twelfth day of the month of Hekatombaion, [5] [4] which occurred from around mid-July to mid-August on the Attic calendar. [4] [5]
Today in England, Twelfth Night is still as popular a day for plays as when Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was first performed in 1601, and annual celebrations involving the Holly Man are held in London. [100] A traditional dish for Epiphany was Twelfth Cake, a rich, dense, typically English fruitcake. As in Europe, whoever found the baked-in bean ...
O Mistress Mine is an Elizabethan song which appears in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night. It is sung by the character Feste, who is asked to sing a love song by Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Sir Toby Belch. The words of the song are addressed to the singer/poet's lover.
Christmas, Twelfth Night, Epiphany, Christmastide, Epiphanytide Little Christmas ( Irish : Nollaig na mBan , lit. 'Women's Christmas'), also known as Old Christmas , is one of the traditional names among Irish Christians and the Amish for 6 January, which is also known more widely as the Feast of the Epiphany , celebrated after the conclusion ...