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The use of comedy in the Twelfth night

Salinger (1974) calls Twelfth Night a “comedy about comedy” in which Shakespeare demonstrates his “fundamental debt to the earlier Renaissance tradition of comic playwriting and his abiding sense of detachment from it” (pg 242), and it is from this point that this essay will discuss...

Twelfth Night 4 Pages

Love and Mistaken Identities in Twelfth Night, a Play by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night Analysis “Twelfth Night” is a play written by Shakespeare. This play, mainly based on love, begins with Orsino trying to win Olivia’s love. Viola, who was shipwrecked, assists the Duke by disguising herself as Cesario and ends up falling in love with the...

Mistake Twelfth Night 2 Pages

Is Twelfth Night or What You Will a Festive or Poignant Comedy?

Topic: One theatre critic has said of Twelfth Night: “…the key question seems to me how much one regards it as a festive piece of saturnalia, written for a very specific occasion, and how much as a dark comedy about impermanence and pain.” What is...

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Misconceptions and Deceit: The Crisis Of Half-Perceived Reality in Twelfth Night

It has often been said that “the clothes make the man.” It could never seem truer than in Twelfth Night where disguises and mistaken identities run the gamut of use. The identity of people, things and ideas are swept away under the facade of something...

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Dark, Upsetting Schemes And Characters In Twelfth Night

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare creates a duality between the worlds of the nobility and its associates and the said “outsiders.” There is a great element of selfishness involved in the actions of the characters deemed “in” as they peruse through the play drunk on love...

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Doctor Faustus Vis-A-Vis Twelfth Night: High And A Low Plots

In both plays, Twelfth Night and Doctor Faustus, there exists a high and a low (or comic) plot. This plot division serves as a parallel – the actions and characters in the low plot coincide with the actions and characters in the high plot. The...

Doctor Faustus Faust Twelfth Night 3 Pages

Puritan Malvolio: A Victim Of Comedy And A True Fool

Initially, the salient fool in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night appears to be Feste — a licensed jester. Yet upon further examination, we see that Shakespeare merely uses Feste as a critic of the comedic disarray in Illyria, which parallels the festival Twelfth Night. The nature of...

Plays Twelfth Night 3 Pages

Shakespeare’s Use Of Sexual And Gender Ambiguity In Twelfth Night

“Sex is one of the constants in human experience; sexuality, one of the variables.” Bruce Smith, Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England. Sexuality in Renaissance England was ambiguous. The current common idea or definition of “homosexual” did not exist in Renaissance England. Today, people are defined...

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Feste As A Playwright Figure And Fool In Twelfth Night

Feste, the fool character in Twelfth Night, in many ways represents a playwright figure, and embodies the reach and tools of the theater. He criticizes, manipulates and entertains the other characters while causing them to reflect on their life situations, which is similar to the...

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Twelfth Night: A Cruelty Comedy

In a Shakespearean comic setting where chaos, asininity, and insolence reign, the very qualities of comic irreverence become virtues. A comic hero or side character who relentlessly pranks stooges and straight men for the audience’s enjoyment is likely to win the viewer’s appreciation. Yet it...

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Twelfth Night is a Mysterious Happy Medium

Quoted centuries before Shakespeare’s birth, the Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus believed that “in everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble to men.” Often times, society focuses its sights on the attainment of concrete and comparable perfection: being the most...

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Twelfth Night And Power Dynamism: The Character Of Sebastian

The character of Sebastian in “Twelfth Night” represents the dynamic factor in an otherwise static equation. Illyria is an immutable place, and the people who live and visit the land become ensnared in a stasis. Shakespeare uses the device of twins to resolve the static...

Twelfth Night 2 Pages

Dismantling the Blazon in Twelfth Night: Women and the Poetic code

Originally used to signify a shield or a coat of arms, the term ‘blazon’ transformed it meaning through the description of virtues or positive attributes, usually of a woman, in late sixteenth century poetry. ‘Blazon’ can either denote a noun, signifying the actual list of...

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