Twelfth Night: Staged: the origins of YA’s greatest tropes

With a foreword by Bea Fitzgerald, author of A Beautiful Evil and The End Crowns All.

‘O time, thou must untangle this, not I.’

Rediscover Shakespeare’s tale of crossed loves and mistaken identities.

Love gets complicated.

After a catastrophic shipwreck, identical twins Viola and Sebastian are separated, each believing that the other is dead. To get her life back on track, Viola begins dressing as a man and working for Duke Orsino – mostly passing love letters to his beau, Countess Olivia. Unfortunately, Viola fancies the Duke for herself, and Olivia has fallen for Viola!

All it would take was another Viola in play to set the whole thing unravelling …

Discover STAGED, a limited collection of Shakespeare’s unabridged plays that celebrates the genius of the Bard and the tropes that continue to delight YA readers to this day.

Explore the rest of the STAGED collection:As You Like It – With a foreword by Talia Hibbert
Hamlet – With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Macbeth – With a foreword by Kat Delacorte
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – With a foreword by Becky Albertalli
Much Ado About Nothing – With a foreword by Holly Bourne
Romeo and Juliet – With a foreword by Jennifer Niven
Julius Caesar – With a foreword by Simon James Green
King Lear – With a foreword by Manjeet Mann
The Merchant of Venice – With a foreword by Lev Rosen
Othello – With a foreword by Malorie Blackman
The Tempest – With a foreword by Katherine Webber
Twelfth Night – With a foreword by Bea Fitzgerald