What Twelfth Night teaches us at the turn of the year

Cassie Martin  |  Comment
Date posted:  1 Jan 2022
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What Twelfth Night teaches us at the turn of the year

Nadine Higgin as Sir Toby Belch and George Fouracres as Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. | photo: Marc Brenner

Christmas is over. Oh no it isn’t! As December draws to a close and we look forward to 2022, we reach Twelfth Night or the eve of Epiphany.

In earlier times, the days after Christmas were often a time of celebration as opposed to the more solemn period of Advent – something which is hard to imagine now, when ‘Christmas’ seems to start in shops and TV adverts as soon as we hit November!

Having recently been teaching Shakespeare’s play of the same name, I have been thinking about Twelfth Night celebrations and in particular their links with pantomime and what both of these might have to say to Christians as we begin a new year.

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