Love and Shakespeare The love theme in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is confusing but at the same time entertaining. The love triangle involving Viola, disguised as Cesario, is in love with Orsino. Orsino is in love with Olivia. Olivia, however, loves Cesario. Orsino tries to woo Olivia with the language of love; however, his many attempts fail because the heart cannot be controlled. Orsino, a man in love with love itself, is on a mission to …showed first 75 words of 805 total…

…showed last 75 words of 805 total…to make the Lady Olivia his were a waste of his time, and he learns to focus his attention to a more open prospect, Viola. The common themes of love are revealed in Shakespeare's sonnets 18 and 73 and in the play Twelfth Night. Shakespeare clearly demonstrates with his beautifully crafted sonnets and poetic characters in Twelfth Night that lovers will come and go, the weather will change, and people will parish, but words will live forever.