Shakespeare’s romantic comedies such as As You Like It & Twelfth Night are all full of various love-relationships. The central pair of lovers in As You Like It comprises Rosalind & Orlando‚ and the love is an example of love at the first sight which‚ nevertheless‚ does not run smooth. The love originates in the Duke’s Court during the wrestling bout won over by Orlando. It‚ however‚ matures in the pastoral setting of the Forest of Arden‚ where Rosalind takes the initiative by being disguised as
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The Principle of Recompense in "Twelfth Night" Author(s): Camille Slights Reviewed work(s): Source: The Modern Language Review‚ Vol. 77‚ No. 3 (Jul.‚ 1982)‚ pp. 537-546 Published by: Modern Humanities Research Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3728062 . Accessed: 07/04/2012 13:43 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps
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return their love‚ things turn sour. In the Elizabethan romantic comedy Twelfth Night‚ William Shakespeare uses the motif of love as a catalyst for madness to show how love can take even the most level headed and prudish person and put them into a lunacy driven haze for requite‚ which‚ if not found‚ often leads to bitterness. No man can escape the thorny tendrils of love. Malvolio seems very unsentimental at the beginning of Twelfth Night‚ described by Maria as “a kind of puritan” (II. iii. 139)
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The uncertainty of identity and disguising of characters throughout Twelfth Night presents a theme with a lot of confusion but also great comedic implications. Mistaken identity is shown when twins Viola and Sebastian are misidentified for one another‚ enhancing the comic confusion amongst the characters. This is more apparent in Act 5 Scene 1; however Shakespeare contributes to this comedy through disguise to develop a sense of dramatic irony in a homoerotic subtext where Olivia falls in love with
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versions of Shakespeare comedies can lie anywhere on a spectrum between an exploration of serious issues and simple comedy of a farcical or uncomplicated nature." Discuss with reference to two films. Shakespearean plays are complex‚ intricate pieces of work in which a diverse range of interpretations and readings can be made. This is particularly true of his comedies‚ where the light-hearted humour is often offset by darker‚ more serious undertones. In adapting these comedies it is for the director
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"She loved me for the dangers I had pass’d‚ and I loved her that she did pity them" (Othello‚ I.iii 166-167). William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Othello‚" is pervaded by a dominant theme‚ one of love. Othello‚ the Moor of Venice falls madly in love with a woman named Desdemona. They marry and are very happy together. Othello and Desdemona face many trials during the course of their nine-month marriage. The most notable one occurs when Barbanzio‚ Desdemona’s father accuses Othello
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to Shakespeare’s comedies that make them classics in the literature world. Although these types of plays go on to entertain audiences‚ these plays are not comedies in the modern sense of the word. In fact‚ comedy long ago is very different that our modern comedy. There are certain feature of the Shakespearean comedy that makes it distinctive than Shakespeare’s tragedies and histories. On of the features is the comedy through the language. Reading through the play twelfth night‚ I noticed that it
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The Importance of Carnivalesque in Twelfth Night The theory of Carnivalesque was presented by a Russia critic Mikhail Bakhtin‚ his theory proposed that the nature of Carnivalesque liberates the assumptions of the higher class through humour and chaos‚ in other words the nature of Carnivalesque mocks the behaviour of those higher in authority and presents them as an everyday fool whereas in reality they are regarded as far more intelligent than others and they rarely possess a foolish thought‚
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Mistaken Identity William Shakespeare‚ in his well-known comedy Twelfth Night‚ creates a plot that revolves around mistaken identity and deception. Mistaken identity‚ along with disguises‚ rules the play and affects the lives of several of the characters. Shakespeare’s techniques involve mistaken identity to bring humor‚ mystery‚ and complication to the play. Many characters in Twelfth Night assume disguises‚ beginning with Viola who is disguised as a eunuch‚ Maria who writes a letter to Malvolio
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The comedies Twelfth Night and Some Like It Hot both use deception through appearance as a comedic device. Through this theme of deceit the film Some Like It Hot directed by Billy Wilder is shown to be a natural descendant to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In both works deception through appearance is shown multiple ways in both the main stories and the subplots. The most obvious case of deception through appearance is the cross dressing that happens in both stories. Vilola dresses up as a man in
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