Twelfth Night est comoediaGulielmi Shakesperii. In editione in folio (titulo Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies) anno 1623 primum edita est. Fons quo usus est auctor fuit collectaneum fabularum a Barnaba Riche anno 1581 congessum, Riche's Farewell to Military Profession, ubi eadem historia, nominibus autem aliis, comprehenditur (titulo "Of Apolonius and Silla"). Riche hanc historiam minime finxit sed ex alia quadam extraxit, olim Italiane in ludo scaenico Gl'ingannati anno 1531 praesentata, postea oratione soluta a Matthaeo Bandello scripta et in opere suo Novelle anno 1554 edita.
"Orsino et Viola" (quae sub specie Cesario videtur) ab Friderico Ricardo Pickersgill picti.
Comoedia die 2 Februarii1602 docta est (an et antea nescitur). Id satis constat ex ephemeride Ioannis Manningham, eo tempore iuris prudentiae apud Templum Medium discipuli:
At our feast we had a play called "Twelve Night, or What You Will", much like "The Comedy of Errors" or "Menaechmi" in Plautus, but most like and near to that in Italian called "Inganni". A good practice in it to make the steward believe his lady-widow was in love with him, by counterfeiting a letter as from his lady, in general term telling him what she liked best in him and prescribing his gesture in smiling, his apparel, etc. and then, when he came to practice, making him believe they took him for mad.[1]
"Malvolio Oliviam ad matrimonium suadet, Maria irridente" ab R. Staines post Danielem Maclise picti"Olivia" ab Edmundo Blair Leighton anno 1887 picta
1623: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, histories & tragedies, published according to the true originall copies (Londinii) p. 255 ff. Textus apud Universitatem Victoriae
Eruditio
Robert Appelbaum, "Aguecheek's Beef" in Textual Practice vol. 14 (2000) pp. 327-341
Robert Appelbaum, Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-226-02126-3
Tobias Döring, "Feasting and Forgetting: Sir Toby and the Lure of Lethe" in Pierre Kapitaniak, Christophe Hauserman, Dominique Goy-Blanquet, edd., Shakespeare et les arts de la table: Actes du congrès organisé par la Société Française Shakespeare les 17, 18 et 19 mars 2011 (OpenEdition Journals, 2012 ~)
