Read Banned Books: Twelfth Night

Antique-looking printed page with '255' in the top right corner, a decorative heading, and below that 'Tvvelfe Night, Or what you will.' Below that the start of the script of Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night is printed in two columns.

First page of the play in the First Folio. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Title:	Twelfth Night
Author:	William Shakespeare
First published:	1623

One of Shakespeare's most-performed comedies, Twelfth Night features a tangle of love interests, disguises (including a young woman disguising herself as a young man), mistaken identities, and startling coincidences.

1996 (New Hampshire): The Associated Press reported in March 1996 that Merrimack, NH schools had pulled this play from the curriculum after the school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Readers from Merrimack informed me in 1999 that school board members who had passed the act had been voted out, after the uproar resulting from the act's passage, and that the play is now used again in Merrimack classrooms. The Library at Occidental College has an online exhibit on the censorship of Shakespeare through history.

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