Twelfth Night

A shipwreck separates twins and one sibling adopts male dress to enter service with a lovesick nobleman who courts a mourning lady refusing men's company. Mistaken identities and romantic cross-purposes create comic confusion: the disguised sibling becomes the object of the lady's affection, while a bumbling suitor and a drunken relative fuel farce. A subplot finds servants tricking a self-important steward into humiliation. Music, revelry, and verbal wit accompany duels and close calls, and the intertwined deceptions ultimately lead to reconciliations, revealed identities, and several marriages, while examining desire, gender performance, and social pretension.