# 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

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