Le Jour des Rois by William Shakespeare

"Le Jour des Rois" by William Shakespeare is a comedy written between 1600 and 1601. After a shipwreck separates twin siblings Viola and Sebastian, Viola disguises herself as a young man and enters the service of Duke Orsino. She must plead his love to Countess Olivia, who rejects the duke but falls for Viola's male disguise. Meanwhile, a subplot of comic revenge unfolds as household pranksters plot to humiliate the puritanical steward Malvolio through an elaborate trick. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Read or download for free

How to read Url Size
Read now! https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16128.html.images 220 kB
EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16128.epub3.images 145 kB
EPUB (older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16128.epub.images 148 kB
EPUB (no images, older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16128.epub.noimages 133 kB
Kindle https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16128.kf8.images 287 kB
older Kindles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16128.kindle.images 281 kB
Plain Text UTF-8 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16128.txt.utf-8 181 kB
Download HTML (zip) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16128/pg16128-h.zip 141 kB
There may be more files related to this item.

About this eBook

Author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Translator Guizot, François, 1787-1874
Uniform Title Twelfth night. French
Title Le Jour des Rois
Note Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Nuit_des_rois
Credits Produced by Paul Murray, Renald Levesque and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from
images generously made available by the Bibliothèque
nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Comedy plays
Subject Mistaken identity -- Drama
Subject Twins -- Drama
Subject Siblings -- Drama
Subject Shipwreck survival -- Drama
Subject Illyria -- Drama
Category Text
EBook-No. 16128
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Dec 11, 2020
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
Downloads 248 downloads in the last 30 days.
Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!