Mao Last dancer
Act 1, scene 1
The music in the opening scene sets the theme
Orsino opens the play with a lengthy monologue about love. He is a dreamer, very poetic.
“If music be the food of love, play on”- Orsino
It has been established that the main theme is ‘love’
It is a romantic comedy
Technique- a rhyming couplet (two lines that rhyme at the end of a scene) a rhyming couplet is a summary of the scene (summarizing the previous lines)
Act 1, scene 2
Act 1 scene 2 takes place in a ship wreck and the survivors have been washed up on a beach
It is a fantasy world (highly entertaining)
Act 1, Scene 3
Sir toby is olivia’s uncle
Maria is a servant for Olivia
Toby, Andrew and Maria create majority of the comedy in the play
Act 1, Scene 4
The technique of aside means that the actor speaks their thoughts (private) to the audience but the other characters cant hear them
“ yet, a barful strife Who’er I woo, myself would be his wife” – fool the fool proves to Olivia that she is taking her brothers death too harshly and this cheers Olivia up, everybody likes the fool except malvolio who puts him down
Olivia then tells malvolio that he’s in the wrong
“ oh you are sick of self-love, Malvolio”- Olivia technique- dialogue, it communicates the characterization
Cesario gives Olivia the message that orsino is completely obsessed with her
“ I cannot love him” – Olivia
Cesario is very clear, Olivia in un-interested
Act 2, Scene 5
“ Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!” - Malvolio
Technique- metaphor that describes malvolio’s self-love
Malvolio is fantasizing that he is the count and that he is married to Olivia
“ Having been three months married to her, sitting in my state” - Malvolio
Technique- Soliloquy (source of humour)
“And the spirit of humors intimate reading aloud to him” – Sir Toby Belch technique- soliloquy of narration (sharing the humour) technique- word play (used for humour)
“And “o” shall end, I
The music in the opening scene sets the theme
Orsino opens the play with a lengthy monologue about love. He is a dreamer, very poetic.
“If music be the food of love, play on”- Orsino
It has been established that the main theme is ‘love’
It is a romantic comedy
Technique- a rhyming couplet (two lines that rhyme at the end of a scene) a rhyming couplet is a summary of the scene (summarizing the previous lines)
Act 1, scene 2
Act 1 scene 2 takes place in a ship wreck and the survivors have been washed up on a beach
It is a fantasy world (highly entertaining)
Act 1, Scene 3
Sir toby is olivia’s uncle
Maria is a servant for Olivia
Toby, Andrew and Maria create majority of the comedy in the play
Act 1, Scene 4
The technique of aside means that the actor speaks their thoughts (private) to the audience but the other characters cant hear them
“ yet, a barful strife Who’er I woo, myself would be his wife” – fool the fool proves to Olivia that she is taking her brothers death too harshly and this cheers Olivia up, everybody likes the fool except malvolio who puts him down
Olivia then tells malvolio that he’s in the wrong
“ oh you are sick of self-love, Malvolio”- Olivia technique- dialogue, it communicates the characterization
Cesario gives Olivia the message that orsino is completely obsessed with her
“ I cannot love him” – Olivia
Cesario is very clear, Olivia in un-interested
Act 2, Scene 5
“ Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!” - Malvolio
Technique- metaphor that describes malvolio’s self-love
Malvolio is fantasizing that he is the count and that he is married to Olivia
“ Having been three months married to her, sitting in my state” - Malvolio
Technique- Soliloquy (source of humour)
“And the spirit of humors intimate reading aloud to him” – Sir Toby Belch technique- soliloquy of narration (sharing the humour) technique- word play (used for humour)
“And “o” shall end, I