"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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