Title page TWELFTH NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL. A COMEDY, by SHAKESPEARE, AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRES-ROYAL. Regulated from the PROMPT-BOOK. With PERMISSION of the MANAGERS, By Mr. HOPKINS, Prompter. An INTRODUCTION, and NOTES Critical and Illustrative, ARE ADDED, BY THE AUTHORS of the DRAMATIC CENSOR. LONDON: Printed for JOHN BELL, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; and C. ETHERINGTON, at York. MDCCLXXIII.

INTRODUCTION.

TWELFTH NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL. This play, which might very properly borrow a title from another of our Author's pieces—the Comedy of Errors—is in its plot very complicate, irregular, and in some places incredible. The grave scenes are graceful and familiar: the comic ones full charged with humour; but rather of the obsolete kind.—Malvolio's ridiculous self-sufficiency is displayed in a most masterly manner: Sir Toby and Sir Andrew keep pace with him; and Viola, though romantic in her love, is delicately sustained. Very few pieces have more spirit than Twelfth Night, or more pleasingly unravel in their catastrophe, an intanglement of characters, and circumstances. Action must render it more pleasing than perusal.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

[Curio], [Servant], [Officer 1], [Officer 2], [Priest]

Priests, Sailors, Officers, and other Attendants.

Drury-Lane.	Covent-Garden.
Orsino,	Mr. Jefferson.	Mr. Hull.
Sebastian,	Mr. Cautherly.	Mr. Wroughton.
Antonio,	Mr. Davies.	Mr. Gardner.
Valentine,	Mr. Wheeler.
Sir Toby Belch,	Mr. Love.	Mr. Dunstall.
Sir Andrew Ague-cheek [Sir Andrew Aguecheek],	Mr. Dodd.	Mr. Woodward.
A Sea-Captain,	Mr. Wright.	Mr. Fox.
Fabian,	Mr. Waldron.	Mr. Lewes.
Malvolio,	Mr. King.	Mr. Yates.
Clown [Feste],	Mr. Vernon.	Mr. Dyer.
Olivia,	Mrs. Abington.	Mrs. Mattocks.
Viola,	Miss Younge.	Mrs. Yates.
Maria,	Mrs. Egerton.	Mrs. Gardner.

SCENE, a City on the Coast of Illyria.

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