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05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
I sincerely enjoyed reading this book. This year, we also read Julius Caesar, which just didn't do it for me. Twelfth Night is a great book to read if you don't really like Shakespeare but need to read it. It's very easy to understand, and once you get into it, it's easy to relate to it. Everyone should know how Orsino feels when he's so deeply in love with Olivia that he wants to be over it, and how it feels to love someone and have them not return those feelings. Shakespeare often liked to write about gender confusion, and he did a great job of that in this book. Of course, it is fairly unrealistic nowadays, but back then, the only actors were men, so a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man was quite hilarious, as you can imagine. Hope I helped someone.<br>-Amy