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twelfth Night Script Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank 2016 2016.playingshakespeare.org ACT 1 SCENE 1 ACT 1 SCENE 1 Music is playing. Enter Duke Orsino, Curio, and other Lords. Orsino If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, 2 that: so that The appetite may sicken and so die. 2 surfeiting: over-indulging That strain again, it had a dying fall. 3 appetite: hunger for it 4 That strain again: play that part O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound 5 again That breathes upon a bank of violets, 4 dying fall: falling rhythm Stealing and giving odour. Enough! No more! ’Tis not so sweet now as it was before. [Music stops.] O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou 9 quick: lively That, notwithstanding thy capacity, 10 9 fresh: vigorous Receiveth as the sea. Naught enters there, 10–11 notwithstanding thy … sea: whatever your size, can hold any Of what validity and pitch soe’er, amount But falls into abatement and low price 11 Naught: nothing Even in a minute. So full of shapes is fancy 12 Of what validity … soe’er: That it alone is high fantastical. 15 whatever its value or quality 13 falls into … price: loses value Curio Will you go hunt, my lord? 14 shapes: images 14 fancy: love Orsino What, Curio? 14 is high fantastical: stretches imagination the most Curio The hart. 18 hart: male deer [a pun on ‘heart’] Orsino Why so I do, the noblest that I have. O when mine eyes did see Olivia first, 20 20 purged: cleaned Methought she purged the air of pestilence. 20 pestilence: disease That instant was I turned into a hart, 22 fell: ruthless, fierce And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, 23 e’er: ever E’er since pursue me. Enter Valentine. How now, what news from her? 24 I might … admitted: I was not allowed in Valentine So please my lord, I might not be admitted, 25 But from her handmaid do return this answer: 27 element: sky The element itself, till seven years’ heat, 27 till seven … heat: for seven summers Shall not behold her face at ample view. 28 at ample view: without her But like a cloistress she will veilèd walk, mourning veil And water once a day her chamber round 30 29 cloistress: nun With eye-offending brine. All this to season 31 eye-offending brine: salty tears A brother’s dead love, which she would keep fresh 31 season: preserve [meat was preserved in salt water] And lasting in her sad remembrance. 33 remembrance: memory Orsino O she that hath a heart of that fine frame 34 of that fine frame: so well made 35 but to: simply for To pay this debt of love but to a brother, 35 36 the rich golden shaft: Cupid’s How will she love, when the rich golden shaft arrow [Cupid was the Roman god Hath killed the flock of all affections else of love] That live in her? When liver, brain, and heart, 37–8 Hath killed … in her?: has These sovereign thrones, are all supplied and filled fixed her love on just one person 38–9 liver, brain … thrones: [the (Her sweet perfections!) with one selfsame king. 40 liver was said to rule passion, Away before me, to sweet beds of flowers, the brain reason and the heart Love thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. emotion] 40 one selfsame: a single They all exit. 42 canopied with bowers: in a sheltered garden spot 1 1 © 2016 The Shakespeare Globe Trust. Permission granted to reproduce for personal1 and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending, is prohibited. 1 ACT 1 SCENE 2 ACT 1 SCENE 2 Enter Viola, a Captain, and Sailors. Viola What country, friends, is this? Captain This is Illyria, lady. Viola And what should I do in Illyria? 4 Elysium: Heaven in Greek myths My brother he is in Elysium. [so dead] Perchance he is not drowned. What think you, sailors? 5 5 Perchance: [here] perhaps 6 perchance: [here] by lucky Captain It is perchance that you yourself were saved. chance 7 perchance: [in both senses] Viola O my poor brother! And so perchance may he be. Captain True madam. And to comfort you with chance, Assure yourself. After our ship did split, 8 chance: the possibility of good When you, and those poor number saved with you, 10 luck Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, 10 poor number: few Most provident in peril, bind himself 11 driving: storm-driven (Courage and hope both teaching him the practice) 12 provident: resourceful To a strong mast that lived upon the sea. 13 the practice: how to do it well Where, like Arion on the dolphin’s back, 15 14 lived: floated I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves 15 Arion: a musician in Greek myth So long as I could see. who was saved from drowning by a dolphin Viola [Giving money.] For saying so, there’s gold. 16 hold acquaintance with: Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope, befriended by 19 unfoldeth to: encourages Whereto thy speech serves for authority, 20 The like of him. Knowest thou this country? 20 Whereto ... of him: and you have supported it Captain Ay madam, well, for I was bred and born 20 The like of him: that he’s Not three hours’ travel from this very place. survived 22 Ay: yes Viola Who governs here? Captain A noble duke in nature, as in name. 25 Viola What is his name? Captain Orsino. Viola Orsino? I have heard my father name him. He was a bachelor then. Captain And so is now, or was so very late. 30 For but a month ago I went from hence, 30 late: recently And then ’twas fresh in murmur (as, you know, 31 hence: here What great ones do the less will prattle of) 32 fresh murmur: newly rumoured That he did seek the love of fair Olivia. 33 great ones: important people 33 prattle: gossip Viola What’s she? 35 Captain A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her In the protection of his son, her brother, Who shortly also died. For whose dear love (They say) she hath abjured the sight 40 And company of men. 40 abjured: withdrawn from 41 O that I: I wish I Viola O that I served that lady, 42–4 might not … my estate is: And might not be delivered to the world could hide my identity until I Till I had made mine own occasion mellow, want to reveal it What my estate is. © 2016 The Shakespeare Globe Trust. Permission granted to reproduce for personal2 and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending, is prohibited. 2 ACT 1 SCENE 3 Captain That were hard to compass, 44 compass: manage to do Because she will admit no kind of suit, 45 45 she will … suit: she’s not letting No, not the Duke’s. anyone in to ask for favours 47 There is a fair ... in three: You Viola There is a fair behaviour in thee captain, seem a good man 48–51 And though that nature with a beauteous wall though that nature … outward character: looks can Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee deceive, but I think you as honest I will believe thou hast a mind that suits 50 as you seem With this thy fair and outward character. 52 I prithee: Please [‘I pray you’] I prithee (and I’ll pay thee bounteously) 52 bounteously: generously Conceal me what I am, and be my aid 53 Conceal me what I am: help For such disguise as haply shall become me disguise myself 54–5 haply shall … my intent: will The form of my intent. I’ll serve this duke. 55 suit my purposes Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him. It may be worth thy pains, for I can sing 56 eunuch: a man castrated as a boy And speak to him in many sorts of music to keep a high singing voice That will allow me very worth his service. 57 be worth thy pains: reward you 59 allow me: prove I am What else may hap, to time I will commit. 60 Only shape thou thy silence to my wit. 60 hap: happen 61 Only shape … my wit: Just Captain Be you his eunuch, and your mute I’ll be. follow my plan When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see. 62 mute: someone who can’t speak 63 let these eyes not see: blind me Viola I thank thee. Lead me on. as a punishment ACT 1 SCENE 3 Enter Sir Toby and Maria. 1 What a plague: an oath similar Sir Toby What a plague means my niece to take the death of her to the modern ‘What the hell’ brother thus? I am sure care’s an enemy to life. 2 care: worry 3 By my troth: Honestly Maria By my troth Sir Toby, you must come in earlier a-nights. 4 cousin: [used for a close relative Your cousin, my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill at the time] 5 takes great … ill hours: dislikes hours. 5 you being out this late Sir Toby Why let her except, before excepted. 6 let her … excepted: [punning, not taking the situation seriously] Maria Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest 7–8 confine yourself … order: limits of order.