Tell me more about Illyria and The Twelfth Night?

Question

Shakespeare wrote The Twelfth Night about an island called
Illyria in ancient times. Please tell me more about the location
and the environment and images.

Answer 1

The setting of Twelfth Night is especially important to the play's romantic atmosphere. "Illyria" refers to a place on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea (what is nowadays Albania), but in Shakespeare's time the name may not have suggested a real country. Illyria may have been as fantastical a place as Camelot.

Like so many of Shakespeare's comedies, this one centres on mistaken identity. The leading character, Viola, is shipwrecked in the shores of Illyria during the opening scenes. She loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes dead. Masquerading as a young page under the name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with the bereaved Lady Olivia (whose brother has recently died), and decides to use Viola (dressed as a man) as an intermediary. Olivia, believing Viola to be male, falls in love with the handsome and eloquent messenger. Viola, in turn, falls in love with the Duke, who also believes Viola is male and has regarded her as his confidante. When Sebastian arrives on the scene, confusion ensues. Mistaking Sebastian for Viola, Olivia asks him to marry her; they were secretly married by a priest. Finally, when the twins appear in the presence of both Olivia and the Duke, there is more wonder and awe at their similarity, at which point Viola reveals she is really a female and that Sebastian is her lost twin brother. The play ends in a declaration of marriage between the Duke and Viola, Toby and Maria, and Olivia and Sebastian, though the marriage is never actually seen.

---Illyria----
Illyria (Anc. Gk. Ἰλλυρία; Latin Illyricum) was in Classical antiquity a region in the western part of today's Balkan Peninsula, founded by the tribes and clans of Illyrians, an ancient people who spoke the Illyrian languages. The delineation of ancient Illyria can pose a problem to historians, since before the Roman conquest the Illyrians were not unified into an Illyrian kingdom, and Illyria's borders before Rome are not always clear. For example, the Dalmatae, though classed as an Illyrian tribe by language, were only subject to the kingdom of Illyria for a short time and soon defected during the reign of King Gentius.

Answer 2

Setting Of Twelfth Night

Answer 3

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Tell me more about Illyria and The Twelfth Night?
Shakespeare wrote The Twelfth Night about an island called
Illyria in ancient times. Please tell me more about the location
and the environment and images.

Answer 4

It is an imaginary place, so all that you can know about it is contained in the play.

However, Illyria was a place in the Balkan peninsula in ancient times.

Answer 5

After Viola de Lesseps left for America, Shakespeare decided to call his next heroine Viola after her. In the movie they show Gwyneth Paltrow swim to the shore.