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Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)

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The serious plot is taken from Belleforest’s Histoires Tragiques. The comic parts are of Shakespeare’s own invention. (See Befana.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Tussle
Tut
Tutivillus
Twa Dogs
Twangdillo
Tweeds
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Twelfth (The)
Twelfth Cake
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Twelve
Twelve Tables
Twickenham
Twig
Twinkling
Twins
Twist (Oliver)
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Twitcher
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