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In a 2017 production of this play, Tamsin Greig played a genderbent character who performs a burlesque striptease. A character in this play claims to “live by the church” because his house is by a church. A Noel Coward play about Garry Essendine takes its title from this play’s line “present mirth hath present laughter.” A character in this play reads that “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em” in a letter that convinces him to smile incessantly and wear (*) cross-gartered yellow stockings. The rhetorical (10[1])question “there shall be no more cakes and ale?” is posed in this play by Sir Toby Belch, who conspires to foil the steward Malvolio. (10[1])This play opens with the line, “If music be the food of love, play on.” For 10 points, a shipwreck in Illyria begins what Shakespeare comedy (-5[2])about the twins Sebastian and Viola? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Twelfth Night [or Twelfth Night, or What You Will]
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