Shakespeare Summarized: Twelfth Night 

Imagine how much more confusing this was when all actors had to be men

"That's ridiculous, no girl could be *that* in love with me." Self burn.

I love how this plays boils down to "bisexual screaming and confusion"

"'I DONT LIKE GIRLS!!!" "Smoothly done,'" i love it

In this film, I actually think that Viola is quite a convincing male.

"If Twelfth Night were written today, Olivia and Viola would've hooked up." Yes.

"OH SO NOW MY AWKWARD MAN CRUSH MAKES SENSE!" im lajughingngks;

Woah. The new season of the Host Club looks great.

Don't forget that in Shakespeare's day all the female characters would have been played by men so the two may actually have looked very similar.

I, definitely, wouldn't turn down a marriage proposal from Helena Bonham Carter.

"Love bent lines they keep trying to pass as love triangles." THANK YOU!!! SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT!!!

Olivia when sees the two twins: THIS IS THE GREATEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE

Are you telling me that “She’s the Man” starring Amanda Bynes was just the 21st century version of Twelfth Night THIS WHOLE TIME

To be honest, I think the twelfth night has to be my most favorite Shakespeare play, because for once, nobody dies, and it's also really funny. Even today. Plus the consept is very interesting. :) So yea. I think I like it better than pretty much anything else that was written at that time. Even by Shakespeare.

why did i had to read romeo and juliet instead of that? this sound way better.

Orcino is Shang from Mulan, closeted gay who realized they can marry the guy that they like because he's a woman

“If you were in love with me, what would you do?” “I would SHOUT REALLY LOUDLY!” I’ve read the play, and I can confirm that this is literally what happened.

I once got to play Viola in a production of Twelfth Night, or What You Will. The great thing about playing her was that I only had to wear a hot, sweaty dress for the first scene. It's such a fun play, especially for whoever gets to play Orsino, because he's just so ridiculously over the top. This is just my favorite Shakespeare play ever don't mind me I'll stop now.

a minor correction: Sir Toby and Sir Andrew aren't Olivia's servants. Sir Toby is her uncle, never fully explains why he lives with her but Sir Andrew is a friend of his who he brings in to try and win Olivia's heart. Other than that very accurate and clearly tells the story.

Funny story: when I first started watching this channel (this video, in fact) I was like "huh, I'm kinda surprised that I haven't heard of this girl before, I mean they have to be pretty famous if they're this funny" but then I saw the subscriber list and that was back when she only had like 350, so I flipped out and immediately subscribed. go overly sarcastic productions!

Dammit, now I don't know who to ship

"viola is a pretty cool instrument" is the most sarcastic remark in the vid

KISS KISS FALL IN LOVE

I am gonna call my next team "The comic relief squad"

I call the het-centric "love triangles" love boomerangs instead. The shape works, they tend to be disappointing in execution, and there is a very good possibility all the people involved will get hurt.

"Who wouldn't accept a marriage proposal from Helena Bonham Carter?" MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY

My parents: Whatever you do don’t be a lesbian! Also My Parents: Let’s name her Olivia, after the character that famously falls in love with a woman. Me: *confused lesbian silence*

Is that Dolores Ambridge and Bellatrix Lestrange?! :O :O

"Most wonderful" omfg and no I won't get my mind out of the gutter lol

The "She's the man" movie! hehehe! amazing!

“Viola is a pretty cool instrument” Someone get twoset on this

I love the idea of a world where Olivia, Viola and Orsino could all sit down, chat shit out, and end up in a very happy and fulfilling poly relationship while Sebastian ends up with the sailor who saved him.

This is straight up my favourite Shakespeare play. I feel like it could work just as well now as it did then because even if all the romances are ok, it doesn't mean they're inherently compatible You could totally make the twins really identical though and it would work fine, male or female

So I had the callback auditions today, where we did different roles with different groups for a bunch of scenes And first they had me read for Fabian But then I read for Viola for the rest if the scenes i read Which was a lot And the director asked me if i can memorize long lines Keep in mind I'm a FRESHMAN I was just going for a role in general, probably small BUT IT SEEMS KIND OF LIKE IM GOING TO GET THE LEAD! CAN SINEONE ELABERATE Edit: I GOT VIOLA

A few thing. 1. I had to read this play in all it's Shakespearian English glory. Still loved it. 2. The ending song, when sung in the right melody/rhythm is absolutely amazing. 3. Just found your videos through Blue's History series, but I've come to love Red's English/Myth/Tropes videos. 4. Olivia and Viola would not have hooked up. Olivia/Viola could still just be straight. But I'd like that version anyways.

It's called Twelfth Night because it refers to the 12th night after Christmas day which is basically the day for the 3 wise men (the ones that give incense, gold and mirth to baby Jesus) I don't know how the title refers to the play though but hey that's how it's called. I hope I made sense

This is like the anime "Ouran High school host club" Where a girl has short hair, and all the girls like her because she looks like a guy, and then all the guys like her because they all know she is a girl. It's the same, just that the guys know the girl is a girl

And remembering that females were played by young boys at the time this play was published -- genderception!

This is honestly the only proper comedy by Shakespeare to really make me laugh. Your narrative definitely helped, but I think this whole scenario, while aged, remains lightheartedly hilarious enough.

4:39 Oh Red, you are so awesome. I love how you say "love blend lines". Fun Fact: Recently BBC celebrated the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, which also might be his birthday.

Is it just me or are Viola and Olivia's name's spelled with the same letters in a different order?

8:07 - 8:11 And I gave Romeo and Juliet flack for getting married so quickly

Most of the vid I was just wondering how did Shakespeare write this without getting confused

I played Viola in my school's Shakespeare play!😂

This is legit my favorite Shakespear play just because it's one of the few with a happy ending (I'm usually a sucker for them) and the comedy makes me roar with laughter.

Shakespeare: "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills..." Red, summarizing: "I'd shout really loud!"

We are reading this in English literature class rn, and we have to act out every scene tbh I'm literally crying of laughter each time. Basically we don't understand a single thing about the lines we're saying, then our teacher explains all the sexual innuendos and all the words we don't get and make us re-do the parts, it gets so hilarious.

I ship Olivia and Viola

So was that Bellatrix lestrange and Umbridge???

This play sounds awesome. Why isn't this required reading

I read this play in high school and freaking *loved* it. My teacher was really great about making things like Shakespearean plays fun and actually understandable for everyone. We watched the movie and also she's the man because of course we did, and it remains one of my favorite plays to this day.

This play was featured in one of my favorite movies, "Wicker Park." The antagonist of the movie, Alex, spends her nights rehearsing a play that I now see was "12th Night." She plays the part of Olivia, and there's a great scene where the director berates her performance because he doesn't believe that she could be in love with a person who is in love with another woman. Well, it turns out she fits the character almost PERFECTLY... two years prior, she had fallen for the protagonist of the movie, Matt, but was too shy to say anything upon first seeing him. She gets a pep talk by her best friend Lisa to go and ask him out, but right when she arrives at his work he sees Lisa and falls in love with her. He and Lisa start dating, much to Alex's heartbreak, and, when she gets an opportunity to sneakily break up the relationship, she does. (Lisa goes on a dance tour for the month, giving Alex a note and Matt's key so he'll know where she is. Alex keeps the note, sneaks into Matt's apartment, deletes Matt's messages on his phone, and then calls Lisa and tells her that she caught Matt cheating on her. Lisa is too heartbroken to confront Matt about this, so she extends the tour and, in Matt's eyes, just vanishes without a trace.)Two years later Alex sees Matt again when he is on a quest to find Lisa after seeing her from a distance at a restaurant and, since they never met, Alex claims to be A Lisa after he sneaks into her (Lisa's) apartment (Note: Matt is pretty much a stalker in his own right until the climax of the movie.). She successfully seduces him, but, after he shows up at her play (the guy Alex is dating prior to the start of the movie, Luke, is Matt's best friend and invited Matt to see the play in an effort to try to get Alex to like him.) Alex has a montage of herself in mental anguish with the director's voice explaining Olivia's role in the play and puts on such a stellar performance that it impresses Matt and bewilders Luke. And, since Alex was wearing weird mime makeup during the performance, Matt doesn't put it together that Luke's girlfriend is the woman who seduced him and ruined his relationship with Lisa two years ago.

So this is the play reffered to at the end of "Shakespear in love"! And I just realized that "She's the man" is totally copyed from this 😂😂👌

10/10, would watch again if given the opportunity.

About to cast 'Raise Dead' on this comment section BUT- LOVE our videos btw OSP! I have been diving into the mythos and history vids, and have only recently been sampling through the story summaries which has brought a rather interesting thing to my notice.... Each time I keep clicking on to a new video I swear the 'years ago' marker keeps getting bigger. 6 years ago? 7 years ago? 8?! 9?! YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR NINE YEARS AND I AINT BEEN AWARE?! How dare I. Love your vids, old and new, and I look gratefully towards more to come!

The reason Twelfth Night is called that is because it was written to be performed on the “twelfth night” of Christmas, which is when they take down their decorations.

Red:Viola is a cool instrument Musicians:WHEEZE

Twlefth Night is the absolute best.

A real love triangle will always be just a little gay

Yes Olivia and Voila would have looked up. But I was really shipping Antonio and Sebastian. Both characters seemed more convenient than anything else... But it was they are so cute!

I'm currently in tech week for a production of this, and both our actors for Sebastian and Orsino were out for the say, so after the last scene (with no "husbands" in sight) I (Olivia) finally got the win she wanted and escorted "Cesario" off stage ;)

Hook, line, and sinker, Red. All in literally the first three seconds. Overly Sarcastic rules!!!!

Everytime we get to the "Most...wonderful" part, I laugh hysterically.

"But I like viola better because that is a pretty cool instrument" Ling Ling laughs in the distance while playing flight of the bumblebee backwards at 15 notes per second

I read this in class for freshman year, and by god did I love whenever I got to read as Olivia, Viola, or Feste! We got to switch often, and I never thought my first high school English teacher would hate Shakespeare so much, she would make us read a play that wasn't Romeo and Juliet. This play was so much fun to read in class!

My English teacher actually played part of this in class to kind of explain the book. Thank You for translating that language Shaksepear calls english!!!

Wait, you missed the best part! Cross-gartered yellow stockings!

12th night is one of my fave shakespeare's honestly. Also this seems like possibly the best place of the internet to put it so here is a playlist i've made for twelfth night: new rules - dua lipa, blame it on the girls - mika, in the middle - dodie, logical song - supertramp, girlfriend - christine and the queens, honey - emma mcgrath, girls/girls/boys - panic!, somebody told me - the killers, i'm not your toy - la roux, I go crazy - orla gartland, remember your a girl - kaiser chiefs, only you - yazoo, lovefool - the cardigans and finally rain - mika. Thoughts?

I saw this play in Oregon and when malvolio (or however you spell it) returns the ring he flipped sicerio(viola) off (the audience was in between them) and then chucked the ring but didn't throw it hard enough and som random guy caught it and threw it the rest of the way

it was very helpful for my exams... thanxxx

I did this play last year in school and played Olivia. There is this awesome scene where Olivia just GOES OFF at sir Toby and it was just the most fun ever.

this is my favourite Shakespeare play by far. Mdisummer's Night is such a distant second, that it took me a second to even remember, and i'd JUST WATCHED YOUR VIDEO FOR IT!

if feste the depressing clown were alive today he'd be a memelord

So hopefully this helps me not fail my exam monday XD Thank you so much for making this!

You've saved my life with these videos so many times. Thanks a lot! Keep it up, all the best from Holland

How do I know this is one of thee best videos you’ve made? In the first 3 seconds you show OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB!! I also just love this story!

“That kind of love officially didn’t happen.” Sure it did, and there are plenty of stories about it. The Middle Ages isn’t a monolith. There were times and places where they were against it sure, but generally no one gave a shit beyond making fun of you for being a genetic dead-end... Which is technically fair.

lol suddenly Ouran High school Host Club pops in 😂😂😂

I played malvolio for my towns Shakespeare play and he was so much fun to act. I understand you had to cut his shenanigans because of time but the yellow stockings scene cracks me up every time.

4:55 Damn, a self burn! Now those are rare.

Yo can we stop for a sec and just take a moment to appreciate how cool the Illyrian uniforms are?

Finally someone said something about most love triangles just being bent lines thank you!!

I've never actually seen or read any Shakespeare plays/story's. But out of all the ones I've heard you summarize, this is my favorite!

For a love triangle to be complete someone must be gay or else it's just a live arrow

this was actually pretty funny

This was so well scripted. Loved the video. I wish our English teacher would explain stuff like this. 😂

I'm a tiny bit surprised no one talks about how perfectly cast the late great Sir Nigel Hawthorne is as Malvolio. He has it all- the hilariousness, the pompousness, the proverbial stick up the bottom and even the underlying tragedy of the character.

oh I love your Chanell so much already! I just found you today and I am through all the greek myths I could find on your Chanell. and we play this in in our theatre club! so much love to you!

I wish I could Helena Bonham Carter!

this is giving me She's the Man and Ouran High School Host Club VIbes lmao

That image of the guy holding his sword by the blade is actually an example of a real technique called "half-swording" which was a way to deal with armor since contrary to what Hollywood and video games would tell you, you can't cut through plate armor or chainmail, this has been my swrdfighting lesson/rant for the day.

I'm on the floor laughing! Thank you for entertaining me while educating me!

If only we read stuff like this in school instead of that dumb shit about 2 teens that gets many people killed because they think their first crush is wife/husband material

this is close the Black Adder season two... Speaking of which, please make a Black Adder summary... also The Holy Grail and Life of Brian

The way you summarized was extremely hilarious 😍😂🤣

This is the most helpful summary of the plot and characters Ive seen! I have to do a creative concept of this play (my fault I suggested it as my final and professor approved.) I love she's the man but I know the story and characters are different in the actual play. I needed the real deal lol THANK YOU!

"...who wouldn't accept a proposal from Helena Bonham Carter?" Tru xD

I saw this play at the globe theater a few years ago. It was hilariousness. If anyone is passing through London I highly recommend it.

Hi!! I LOVVVE your videos. I have always been fascinated by myths and literature and you add this whole other spin on it. I would just like to attempt to help people writing essays and make it known that the name Twelfth night, comes from a festival of the same name that celebrated misrule and frivolity. Peasants became kings and vice versa and it was basically one big opposite day that happened either just before or just after Christmas.

Our class was given about 15 minutes on stage for Shakespeare day hosted by another school. We played the comedy relief characters (the sword fight scene) I even brought a fake sword and a fake axe and we were all in silly little costumes, the whole getup, and I genuinely think we were the best stage that day, the other schools did dramatic bits from other Shakespeare plays that were less than impressive