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Twelfth Night

(Intercut) Madam, you have done me...

Overview

Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act V, scene 1
Time & Place
The grand reception hall of Olivia's estate in Illyria, during the play's final resolution.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

Context

Text

(Intercut)

Madam, you have done me wrong,
Notorious wrong.

Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter.
You must not now deny it is your hand:
Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase;
Or say 'tis not your seal, nor your invention:
You can say none of this: well, grant it then
And tell me, in the modesty of honour,
Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,
Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,
To put on yellow stockings and to frown
Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people;
And, acting this in an obedient hope,
Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
And made the most notorious geck and gull
That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why.

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