Le Jour des Rois by William Shakespeare
"Le Jour des Rois" by William Shakespeare is a comedy written between 1600 and 1601. After a shipwreck separates twin siblings Viola and Sebastian, Viola disguises herself as a young man and enters the service of Duke Orsino. She must plead his love to Countess Olivia, who rejects the duke but falls for Viola's male disguise. Meanwhile, a subplot of comic revenge unfolds as household pranksters plot to humiliate the puritanical steward
Malvolio through an elaborate trick. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
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| Translator | Guizot, François, 1787-1874 |
| Uniform Title | Twelfth night. French |
| Title | Le Jour des Rois |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Nuit_des_rois |
| Credits |
Produced by Paul Murray, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Comedy plays |
| Subject | Mistaken identity -- Drama |
| Subject | Twins -- Drama |
| Subject | Siblings -- Drama |
| Subject | Shipwreck survival -- Drama |
| Subject | Illyria -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 16128 |
| Release Date | Jun 25, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 11, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 498 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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