Reading notes: 'Twelfth Night'

These will be mostly meta-level comments, because I very much do not expect anyone to care much about my first-order thoughts about a Shakespeare play I've just read for the first time. If you want to get (back?) in to Shakespeare, this is a good choice. I found myself much less confused, line by line, than I have with other Shakespeare plays recently. I don't know how much of this is the material itself and how much is the very ergonomic Folger edition I was reading from; I suspect it was both. It seems like an oversight that I've never even seriously considered reading Twelfth Night until now. (Instead of what? Well, the book I most regret having read cover-to-cover is Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, but that's another post. Suffice to say I could have read quite a bit more than Twelfth Night with that time.) Silicon Valley's collective reading attention has never, that I can tell, turned to Shakespeare. I'm not sure I can even recall a major SV figure even, say,…