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The 2025 season will likely feature a mix of Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, such as Twelfth Night or Othello, performed by top-tier actors and directors.—Emma Caldwell, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025 Padma Lakshmi and daughter Krishna Lakshmi flash dazzling smiles at Shakespeare in the Park's Twelfth Night on Aug. 21 in New York City.—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025 Last Twelfth Night, Shaina Taub supplied a surplus of cheekily vaudevillian jazz-funk.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025 Social inversion is a lie; after Twelfth Night comes Epiphany.—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Twelfth Night
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of Twelfth Night was
before the 12th century
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