伊利里亚公爵奥西诺向奥丽维亚小姐求爱，屡遭拒绝。这时，一对孪生兄妹航海到伊利里亚，在附近海上遇难。妹妹薇奥拉改扮男装，投身奥西诺公爵家中为侍童，并充当了代他向奥丽维亚小姐求爱的使者。奥丽维娅对女扮男装的薇奥拉一见钟情，而薇奥拉却偷偷爱上了公爵。后来，奥丽维亚碰巧遇上薇奥拉的孪生兄长西巴斯辛，两人以误就误地结成夫妇。公爵也和薇奥拉终成眷属。全剧以兄妹相聚，情人结合而告终。

Winner of the 2009 John Whiting Award for drama. An incredibly bold and mature first play, reminiscent of Noel Coward's Design For Living and Kevin Elyot's My Night With Reg. Alternating between 1958 and 2008, and featuring the same three people, forever thirty-something, living similar but radically different lives, The Pride examines changing attitudes to sexuality over a period of 50 years, looking at intimacy, identity and the courage it takes to be who you really are. Some things may change but the complexities of the human heart remain eternal.

汉堡剧评，ISBN：9787532728619，作者：（德）莱辛（Gotthold Ephraim Lessing）著；张黎译