In which of Shakespeare's plays is Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, one of the main characters?
Orsino (Twelfth Night) Orsino (Twelfth Night) Duke Orsino is a fictional character from William Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night", believed to have been written around 1600 or 1601. Orsino is Duke of Illyria. He is a powerful nobleman who is kind and trustworthy to everyone he meets, and constantly compares his love with Olivia with music. Orsino is a bachelor, lovesick for the beautiful Lady Olivia, but finds himself becoming more and more fond of his new page boy, Cesario (Viola in disguise), the daughter of a nobleman who knew Duke Orsino. Viola falls in love with Orsino, despite continuing to plead his case
The Plays of William Shakespeare to Johnson's "Preface to Shakespeare": a discussion of Shakespeare's "greatness" especially in his "portrayal of human nature"; the "faults or weakness" of Shakespeare; Shakespeare's plays in relationship to contemporary poetry and drama; and a history of "Shakespearean criticism and editing down to the mid-1700's" and what his work intends to do. Johnson begins: That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox;