CHARACTERS

Viola – a shipwrecked young lady, the heroine of the play, later disguised as a young man named Cesario.
Duke Orsino – Duke of Illyria
Olivia – a wealthy countess
Sebastian – Viola's twin brother
Malvolio – steward in the household of Olivia
Maria – Olivia's gentlewoman
Sir Toby Belch – Olivia's uncle
Sir Andrew Aguecheek – a rich man who Sir Toby brings to be Olivia's wooer
Antonio – a captain and friend to Sebastian
Curio – gentlemen attending on the Duke
Priest

       AUTHOR 1
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.