There are definitely class boundaries broken in the Twelfth Night as well. The person who most often brings out the crossing of the class boundaries is Viola (or Cesario as the case may be). Both Olivia and Orsino fall for this bright and beautiful young woman (or man). Both of these people are part of the of the upper class, while Viola a member of the lower class who has been shipwrecked in a city …
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…and Olivia and Sebastian. While the notion is not as obvious for those two couples, it still applies. There is much to be taught and much to be laughed about in this play through the crossing of these class boundaries, especially back in the day when this play was originally performed. It was not right for a person of high society to marry someone from the lower class, making the play all the more humorous.