Terry Deary

British children's author and playwright, best known for creating the Horrible Histories series; former actor and teacher.

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  1. 1. Twelfth Night

    After a shipwreck, a young woman separated from her twin brother disguises herself as a man to enter the service of a lovelorn duke, setting up a tangled triangle in which the duke pines for a noblewoman who, in turn, falls for the disguised servant; meanwhile a drunken household conspirator and his friends play a cruel prank on the pompous steward, and when the missing twin unexpectedly reappears identities are revealed, mistaken affections are sorted out, and foolish pride is punished, leaving multiple couples united amid comic chaos and reflections on love and social ambition.