Twelfth Night‚ She’s The Man She’s the Man is a loosely based modernized version of the famous Shakespeare play‚ Twelfth Night. They have the same basic plots; Girl is in disguise as her twin brother for her own reasons‚ which evolves into a distorted love triangle. Title‚ language and setting are a few of the main differences between the two plays. The title She’s the Man was chosen for the modernized version of Twelfth Night. The new title appeals to a younger broader crowd. The unique and
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Shakespeare’s comedy‚ ’Twelfth Night’‚ is not only about tricks‚ pranks or black humour; moreover‚ it’s deeply about love and different types of love and how they affect different personalities. The different types of love mentioned by Shakespeare in ’Twelfth Night’ are: True love‚ boasting love‚ self-love and friendship. ’Twelfth Night’ consists of many love triangles and the different characters involved in the triangles don’t end up with the ones they love or even their love makes them blind
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Gender Roles in Twelfth Night and As you Like It Much of the comedy in Twelfth Night and As you Like It emerges from Shakespeare’s distortion of traditional gender roles‚ as both plays contain strong female leads who disguise themselves as males. Though both Viola and Rosalind help their less-than-ideal beloveds woo their own objects of desire‚ and both disguises emerge party from the loss of a male familial figure‚ the women inhabit their male facades in drastically different ways. In both plays
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Duke Orsino Character Analysis in Act 1 Orsino is the duke of the country Illyria. He is lovesick for the beautiful lady Olivia. From the first line of the play‚ Orsino’s character can already be distinguished as he rant about his love for Lady Olivia; “If music be the food of love‚ play on”‚ from this we already get the gist that he is a melancholy character. He uses the words such as ‘excess’‚ ‘surfeiting’‚ ‘appetite...sickening’ and ‘dying fall’ in his rant about his love for Olivia. These
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NAME: Danielle Granderson TEACHER: Mrs De Silva SUBJECT: Literatures in English QUESTION: “The title of the play Twelfth Night or What You Will promises joy and festivity‚ but expectations are not fulfilled in the play.” Discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement. Twelfth Night has often been called the most perfect of all Shakespeare’s romantic comedies. The very title of this play refers to the saturnalian revel where‚ according to Frank Kermode‚ the world ‘lost its normal‚ sane
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Devin McGowan 06/05/13 Honors English: Research Paper- Twelfth Night Period 8/9 Apples and Oranges A Comparison of Olivia and Viola in Shakespeare ’s Twelfth Night When comparing two drastically different people‚ situations‚ or objects‚ they often refer to the old saying “It ’s like comparing apples and oranges”. In reference to Shakespeare ’s Twelfth Night‚ many would say the same thing of the characters Viola and Olivia. But‚ is that observation completely true
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When speaking about Cleopatra’s undying charm‚ Enobarbus stated‚ Age cannot wither her‚ nor custom stale Her infinite variety This is how many readers feel about the heroines in Shakespeare’s comedies. In both Twelfth Night and As You Like It the action revolves around strong female characters. Both Viola and Rosalind show immense strength‚ courage and power highly uncharacteristic of women in Elizabethan literature. In addition to their strength‚ the women also retain traditional feminine characteristics
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Melissa Younan SoHo Period 5 Mrs.Weatherington December 4th‚ 2014 Twelfth Night In Shakespeare ’s Twelfth Night Act II scene two‚ a young woman finds herself in a compromising position. The story begins when she is swept to the shores of Illyria after a terrible shipwreck. Unable to find her brother‚ Viola disguises herself as a man named Cesario and begins working for the nobleman‚ Duke Orsino. Soon after‚ the Duke begins to confide in Cesario about his deep affections for Lady Olivia and his
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Shakespeare’s original play‚ Twelfth Night‚ is a humorous romance story‚ similar to Andy Fickman’s She’s the Man. The two go hand in hand‚ but the execution is varied. The roles of individuals were changed and there is about a five hundred year gap between the two‚ resulting in minor differentials. The two interpretations of the story represent the same thoughts yet are separate successful productions. There are roughly ten characters in the play Twelfth Night that have significance to the plot
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William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night One of the first lines in the play Twelfth Night reveals the main theme of the play. Curio asks‚ "Will you go hunt‚ my lord?" And Duke Orsino replies‚ "Why‚ so I do‚ the noblest that I have. O‚ when mine eyes did see Olivia first‚ methought she purged the air of pestilence; that instant was I turned into a hart‚ and my desires‚ like fell and cruel hounds‚ e’er since pursue me." The Twelfth Night is all about hunting the "heart‚" and seeking love. Love and relationships
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