Do you know the history of Twelfth Night? Here's how it came to be known as the start of the Carnival season in New Orleans.
Feasts, drinking and dancing were all commonplace during this day, and Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night," a romantic comedy, is set during this holiday. Europeans living in the Middle Ages also ...
Twelfth Night is not a national holiday in the UK and is nowhere near as celebrated as Christmas. But, you may well have heard of it, perhaps through your digital calendar or through the famous ...
Up until the 19th Century, Christmas would be celebrated for a full 12 days, which is why Twelfth Night was an important marker in the calendar. It’s probably exactly when the Shakespeare comedy ...
Every time a jaded critic starts to think there must be a limit to the number of different ways Shakespeare can be done ... Prasanna Puwanarajah’s take on the seasonal comedy Twelfth Night does ...
Shakespeare in the Gardens is returning to Hobart’s Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens this summer with a production of ...
The late-night party scene sees these sorry revellers come together with all the abandon of a night on the town during the hazy Twixtmas period, where the shimmer of the season has worn off ...