# Twelfth Night

**Author:** William Shakespeare
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–18
**First published:** 1602
**Page count:** 256
**Genre:** Drama
**ISBN-13:** `9780743482776`
**ISBN-10:** `0743482778`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/twelfth-night
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Shipwrecked and separated from her twin brother, Viola disguises herself as a young man and enters the service of Duke Orsino — setting off a tangle of mistaken identities and crossed loves in the kingdom of Illyria. Shakespeare's comedy plays disguise, desire, and gender for both laughter and feeling. A common grades 9-12 text for studying comedy and identity.

## Themes

- love
- identity
- disguise
- humor

## Where this book is assigned

### AP English Literature & Composition

- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: AP Lit drama representative text](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: AP Lit drama representative text](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition)

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **required** · 8th grade · Ohio — [source: Chagrin Falls English Department Reading List 2025-2026 - CFMS Advanced English Grade 8 - 2nd quarter all-read (No Fear Shakespeare)](https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2683/CFMS/5742827/READING_LIST_2025-2026.pdf)

### IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature

- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: William Shakespeare is on the IB Diploma Programme English A: Literature Prescribed Reading List (author-eligible; schools select from the full PRL). Verified via independent author-roster cross-reference, 2026-09-04.](https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: William Shakespeare is on the IB Diploma Programme English A: Literature Prescribed Reading List (author-eligible; schools select from the full PRL). Verified via independent author-roster cross-reference, 2026-09-04.](https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/)

### Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Literature (1ET0)

- **required** · 9th grade — [source: Set text in the Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Literature (1ET0) specification, component: Shakespeare. Specification Issue 2, June 2019. Read 2026-10-03.](https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/English%20Literature/2015/specification-and-sample-assesment/9781446914359_GCSE_2015_L12_Englit.pdf)
- **required** · 10th grade — [source: Set text in the Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Literature (1ET0) specification, component: Shakespeare. Specification Issue 2, June 2019. Read 2026-10-03.](https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/English%20Literature/2015/specification-and-sample-assesment/9781446914359_GCSE_2015_L12_Englit.pdf)

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