![]() ![]() The letter also suggests that Malvolio smile in Olivia’s presence, so that she might discreetly know he returns her affections. ![]() ![]() Sir Andrew, convinced Olivia will never agree to see him, is intent on giving up the chase, but Sir Toby persuades him to stay a little longer, convincing him that he has a chance with the countess. Sir Toby’s friend, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, arrives Sir Toby is trying to put in a good word for his friend, who is trying to woo Olivia (unsuccessfully). Olivia’s uncle, a drunken aristocrat named Sir Toby Belch, is chastised by Olivia’s gentlewoman and chambermaid, Maria, for coming home late, drunk. ![]() Viola, keen to establish herself in this new place, decides that she will serve Orsino, disguising herself as a male youth named Cesario. Meanwhile, a lady named Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, and fears her twin brother, Sebastian, with whom she was travelling, may have died during the wreck. Olivia has vowed to shut herself away from society for seven years as a result of these deaths. The play opens with the Duke of Illyria, Orsino, pining away with love for Olivia, a countess whose father died a year ago and whose brother has recently died. ![]()
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