Twelfth Night – Shakespeare in Performance by VSS 11/21/08 Twelfth Night is a Shakespearian comedy about mistaken identity‚ gender confusion‚ love and suffering it causes and the foolishness of ambition. I will be comparing Shakepeare’s text from Bevington’s “The Complete Works of Shakespeare”‚ to both the 2003 film version of Twelfth Night directed by Tim Supple and the 1996 film Twelfth Night directed by Trevor Nunn. Is it more important to follow the text in a Shakespeare film adaptation
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In the introduction of Twelfth Night‚ twins Sebastian and Viola are compared to have such similar characteristics that Viola is said to have disguised herself as Sebastian. The twins‚ get into a terrible shipwreck that dolefully partens them. Viola masters a scheme to disguise herself as a man named Censario while she searches for her twin. Quickly Censario runs low on money and takes a job working for Orsino the Duke of Illyria‚ whom she instantly falls in love with. Unfortunately the love of her
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Program Notes By Xiaohan Sun Béla Bartók Born 1881‚ Nagyszentmiklós‚ Hungary Died 1945‚ New York‚ New York Viola Concerto (1945) Bartok left two major concertos unfinished: the Third piano concerto and the Viola Concerto. The former was complete except for the orchestration of the last seventeen measures‚ but the latter required much more extensive work. The manuscript for this unfinished work was given to Bartok’s friend and informal student Tibor Serly‚ who reconstructed the work and prepared
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times there are sets of lovers who by time overcome the obstacles in their relationship and unite. In the Twelfth Night‚ we find out that the Duke is in love with lady Olivia but she rejects him. Also‚ Viola has come to find that she has feelings for the Duke himself. Olivia’s love for Cesario‚ Viola in disguise‚ is another example of a set of lovers. I find it more interesting when there is a love story involved. Additionally‚ Shakespearean comedies are known to have complex plots. His comedies are
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Gwyneth Paltrow‚ plays Viola De Lesseps in the film‚ she relates to how Juliet Capulet is portrayed in Romeo & Juliet. Viola and Juliet both are in love with someone they cannot have and are forced to marry a man they do not want to marry. William Shakespeare and Viola De Lesseps are basically the Romeo and Juliet of the film. Lord Wessex‚ played by Collin Firth‚ relates to Paris in Romeo & Juliet. Lord Wessex is a very wealthy man who is interested in marrying Viola De Lesseps‚ like Paris was
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expectations for women to fully accept and love themselves for who they are. Moreover‚ the entertainment industry has picked up on this idea in the movie She’s the Man‚ starring Amanda Bynes as Viola and Channing Tatum as Duke. This movie explores the cultural downcast of women by superior men and also the
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of women and their roles in society. In Twelfth Night‚ most of the important relationships are based on the deception of Viola. Viola’s chooses to disguise herself as a man in Illyria‚ thus driving the action of the play. "Conceal me what I am‚ and be my aid / For such disguise as haply shall become / The form of my intent" (Shakespeare (2) 50); with this decision Viola causes‚ not only the confusion in the play‚ but the final outcome as well. Viola’s gender switch also illustrates the fact
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Viola as the most important character in conveying the idea of vague in gender position‚ disguised as Cesario‚ a pageboy assisting the duke to win Olivia’s favor. With the fuzzy identity being a man in her appearance and being a girl in her heart‚ Viola fails to avoid the intricate love triangle among herself‚ Duke Orsino and Olivia. She longs for her love but she can’t express
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displayed in the passage through the relationship and dialogue between major and minor character. Viola‚ a predominant and strong character in the play‚ is engaging in dialogue with Antonio who although when analysed has complexity‚ is seemingly a minor character. This brings about the theme of power relationships and specifically gender within the comedic realm represented intricately in this passage. Viola carries and element of intrinsic power throughout the passage‚ evident in the stage direction
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them act foolishly. The first example of deception in this play was when Viola decides to disguise herself as a man. Viola barely escapes a shipwreck along with her twin brother Sebastian. Separated in this terrible disaster each twin believes the other has died in the wreck. The captain of the shipwrecked vessel advises Viola to go and find a job with the Duke Orsino since she has no family or way to support herself. Viola must disguise herself as a man in order to get a job and survive. "For such
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