William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night introduces a wise fool named Feste. As a licensed fool‚ Feste plays an integral role within the plot of the play. Feste acts as the voice of reason in a play filled with cross-dressing‚ disguises‚ confusion‚ trickery‚ and chaos. Feste has the ability to break down the barrier between the cast on stage and the audience members‚ while also embodying the festivities of the feast of the Epiphany and the beginning of Carnival. Even though Feste is called a fool in name
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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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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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the play Twelfth Night and the movie She’s the Man. There are significant alterations in character names. The relations in families differ greatly between the two. Many changes also happen in the style of humour used. But the most obvious differences between Twelfth Night and She’s the Man are in character names. The names in the Elizabethan time play Twelfth Night are in contrast to the modern movie She’s the Man. For example‚ the character Antonio who is a ship captain in Twelfth Night‚ is a hairstyler
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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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The Hidden Passion of Orsino In the play Twelfth Night‚ the character Orsino is a man of deep passion who attempts‚ but is mostly unsuccessful‚ at hiding his passion. This is seen in many of his speeches‚ including his first speech of the play (1.1.1-15)‚ his interaction with his court in the second act (2.4.1-6)‚ and his impassioned speech when he thinks Cesario has married Olivia (5.1.110-124). In these speeches‚ his thinly veiled passion is seen in several formal elements of his speech‚ including
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While the main characters in Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night play the biggest part in developing the topsy-turvy spirit of the Twelfth night holiday‚ Malvolio‚ a smaller character‚ plays a large part in strengthening the theme found throughout the story of how love can reveal a persons true personality as well. At the beginning of the play‚ when we are first introduced to Malvolio‚ we see that Malvolio is not an average servant. “My masters‚ are you mad? or what are you? Have ye no wit‚ manners
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Final Paper A0981150 李昀蓉 Compare Twelfth Night with The Rivals‚ both of them are comedies evolving around several couples. The two plays contain the device of disguise and mistaken identity. In Twelfth Night‚ Viola disguises herself as Cesario‚ which attracts Orsino and Olivia; while in The Rivals‚ Jack Absolute disguises himself as Ensign Beverley‚ who fascinates Lydia. Speaking of similarities‚ both the disguises lead to the characters’ affairs‚ and they are proved to be true love at
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presence and execution of Shakespearean comedy tropes in A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream’ He is ostensibly the greatest play write ever‚ with the production of over 37 plays and productions that are constantly staged even now in the 21st century. But one of his more prestigious plays ‘A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream’‚ is “the best written play every produced” as quoted by Chris Hastings of The Telegraph. One of his most illustrious and famed plays which falls within the comedy genre of Shakespeare’s plays has
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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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