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I love everything about Illyria - and would consider it a blessing for anyone to have that name, yet I admit a special fondness for Twelfth Night.

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My favorites from your list are:

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Ariel - (I love Ariel!)
Caius
Corin
Horatio
Lysander
Toby
Charmian
Cressida
Nerissa
Regan
Tamora

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A few others I happen to love are Cymbeline, Polixenes, Florizel, Thaisa, Lysimachus, Autolycus--though the "Auto" portion might bring difficulties now-a-days, Perdita, Mopsa, Phrynia--and I absolutely LOVE Lychorida - please see the following quotation from Pericles.

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Thou God of this great vast, rebuke these surges,
Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast
Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,
Having call'd them from the deep. O! still
Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench
Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes. O! how Lychorida,
How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously;
Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle
Is as a whisper in the ears of death,
Unheard. Lychorida! Lucina, O!
Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle
To those that cry by night, convey thy deity
Aboard our dancing boat; make swift the pangs
Of my queen's travails!

This message was edited 10/23/2017, 4:13 AM