第十二夜英文ppt(twelfth nights).pptVIP

Twelfth Night Content Dramatic personae background Introduction Type: Romantic Comedy (浪漫喜剧) Time: 16th Century (十六世纪) Locale: Illyria (伊利里亚) Witten: around 1601 Background Illyria, the setting of Twelfth Night, is important to the plays romantic atmosphere. It is an ancient region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea covering parts of modern Croatia, Montenegro and Albania, but, in the context of allegory, is thought to be an imaginary place. Illyria is mentioned in one of the source plays for Twelfth Night, Plautuss Menæchmi, as a place where, as in Twelfth Night, a twin went looking