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The 15-Minutes Or So Twelfth Night

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In the story, The 15-Minutes or so Twelfth Night by William Shakespear Creatively modified by Brendan P.Kelso and Khara C. Oliver the main characters of this story are Orsino, Viola, and Lady Olivia and the story it takes places in Illyria.

Orsino loves Olivia and always asks his servants to go tell her this.On the other hand, Viola is heading to Illyria to make Orsino fall in love with her by disguising as a boy named Cesario with her even though she knows he loves Olivia.After being saved from a shipwreck and thinks her twin brother Sebastian has drowned.Orsino tells Cesario to go and tell Olivia that he loves her so Cesario heads to Olivia's house to tell Olivia this.When Cesario tells Olivia what Orsino told him to say Olivia says she can not love him.After this Olivia falls in love with Cesario and wants her servant Malvolio to go tell him to visit tomorrow. …show more content…

Meanwhile, at Olivia house, Maria comes up of writing a fake love letter Olivia wrote to Malvolio so Malvolio thinks Olivia likes him and makes a fool out of himself. When he finds out it was a trick because he yelled at Sir Andrew and who likes Olivia and Sir Toby Olivia's belching uncle for making loud noises. orsino tells Cesario to go to Olivia again and at Olivia's house Malvolio finds the fake love letter on the floor and falls for the

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