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    Twelfth Night‚ or What You Will Art and Culture Quotes How we cite the quotes: Citations follow this format: (Act.Scene.Line). Line numbers correspond to the Norton edition. VIOLA And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. Perchance he is not drown’d: what think you‚ sailors? (1.2.2) | Twelfth Night is full of literary references‚ including allusions to Shakespeare’s own dramatic works. For example‚ the play’s shipwreck plot involving the separation of twins echoes the

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    “Confusion and deception are key elements of comedy.” How does Shakespeare present these ideas in Twelfth Night? Confusion and deception are two key elements that occur often in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and they seem to go hand in hand with one another- where one occurs the other is slowly behind. As in most comedies‚ Twelfth Night celebrates different forms of confusion and deception in order to make the play more entertaining and comical Shakespeare incorporates the confusion and deception throughout

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     Shakespeare uses disguise in his play‚ Twelfth Night‚ to cause confusion and internal conflict between his characters and it is this confusion and conflict that appeal to the audience. It keeps them wondering how many more of these situations will arise‚ and in the end‚ how will this confusion and conflict be resolved? The first time that this is evident is in Act I‚ Scene IV‚ where Cesario‚ really Viola is sent by her master‚ Orsino‚ to win the love of Countess Olivia for

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    Paviell Reese Major Works Data Sheet Title: Twelfth Night Author: William Shakespeare Date of Publication: 1602 Genre: Shakespearean Comedy Biographical information about the author: William Shakespeare‚ born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon‚ Warwickshire‚ England‚ was an English poet and playwright. Shakespeare was believed to have been educated at the King’s New School in Stratford about a quarter-mile from his home. At the age of 18‚ Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. The ceremony may have

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    Twelfth Night is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in the early 1600’s. This comedy was written for the entertainment of the close of the Christmas season. Twelfth Night includes musical interludes as well as extreme disorder through out the entire play. Many plot elements from Twelfth Night have been taken from the short story of Of Apollonius and Silla by Barnabe Rich. The first live performance of this Shakespeare comedy took place on February 2‚ 1602 at Candlemas‚ however‚ this play was

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    Twelfth Night Essay While many will agree that Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is critically acclaimed to be one of the most entertaining and well-liked pieces that he has written‚ there tends to be a discrepancy over how the characters in the play are portrayed when it comes to the importance of gender roles. After reading James C Bulman’s article over the Globe’s more recent performance of Twelfth Night and Shakespeare’s original written version‚ I realized that there are many ways that this famous

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    The play twelfth night‚ mainly a comedy‚ presents the challenges faced by the characters throughout the play. During the play many relations those were already going on were broken while the new ones started. The most interesting relation that developed was between Duke Orsino and Viola. The love between them never started as a normal love because Viola always met Duke in the disguise of a male named Cesario and Duke found Cesario a trustworthy person and uses him as an intermediary to confess his

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    Twelfth Night "Twelfth Night is a comedy of light and shade. Its characters are not unreservedly happy and the events are not unreservedly humorous." Discuss. As a comedy‚ Twelfth Night is obviously intending to not only entertain its audience but also point out problems in society. It is imperative to entire merit of the play not to be realistic but to allow for empathy. Therefor to have a comedy of complete lightheartedness there would be no balance

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    Twelfth night Act 1 scene 1 Plot The play begins with introducing the character of duke Orsino who is presented as being ‘lovesick’ for the duchess Olivia. We learn from one of Orsino’s gentlemen valentine that Olivia is mourning for her dead brother and is going to stay in mourning for 7 years. Orsino thinks that this is great as he believes that if Olivia can love her brother with so much passion she will be even more passionate towards him‚ when she falls in love with him which of course

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    William Shakespeare’s multidimensional comedy Twelfth Night dismantles and obliterates socially constructed limitations regarding biological and assumed gender and identity‚ thus emphasising that nothing is certain‚ rather‚ a matter of perspective. The reader to an emphatic extent becomes an integral part of the way language forms and shapes the reality of the play. Therefore‚ language instructs initial perceptions and the foundational reality of the reader but not final perceptions and ultimate

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