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This paper examines love as a primary theme in literature, and Shakespeare gave particular attention to love and its various aspects in his comedies. "Twelfth Night" is such a comedy and explores the idea of true love and its possibility as well as suggesting how much of love is an illusion. The characters play these ideas out in a setting where women often pretend to be men and so complicate matters even more.

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"Love is a primary theme in literature, and Shakespeare gave particular attention to love and its various aspects in his comedies. Twelfth Night is such a comedy and explores the idea of true love and its possibility as well as suggesting how much of love is an illusion. Twelfth Night is a play based on mistaken identities and grand passions. True love in this play becomes enmeshed in a series of errors, mistaken identities, misplaced affections, and a general social confusion that actually begins when Sebastian and Viola are separated in a shipwreck. The confusions are compounded by having Viola dress as a boy, a device often used by Shakespeare and one that creates a particularly rocky road for..."

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