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TWELFTH NIGHT QUOTES (CHARACTERS (VIOLA / CESAREO ("I see what you…
TWELFTH NIGHT QUOTES
CHARACTERS
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VIOLA / CESAREO
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"Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,"
Describes herself as 'Patience on a monument, smiling at grief'
'Make me a willow cabin at your gate [...] Halloo your name to the reverberate hills,'
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Jonathan Bate: 'Viola redeems the play because she proves to be selfless, not selfish, in love. She becomes echo instead of narssisus.
ORSINO
"If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die."
"Enough; no more, 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before'
"For women are as roses whose fair flower, Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour"
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FESTE
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'Truely sir, and pleasure will be played one time or another.'
SIR TOBY
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'She's a Beagle, true bred, and one that adores me."
"Will you help - an ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave, a thin faced knave, a gull?"
about Sir Toby 'whats a drunken man like for, like a drowned man, a fool, a madman.' - excess
'but i will never die, Sir Toby there you lie'
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OLIVIA
'O you are sick of self love, Malvolio.'
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SEBASTIAN
(to Olivia) "So comes it, lady, you have been mistook. But nature to her bias drew in that." (therefore is justifiable their love could be true).
CRITICS AO5
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Samuel Pepys: Twelfth Night 'is not at all related to the name or the day' - (can disagree with this)
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1800s: viewed it as comedic - William Hazlitt "the most delightful of Shakespeare's comedies. It is full of sweetness and pleasantry." 1817
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Jan Knott "With all its appearances of gaiety, it is a very bitter comedy."
Alexander Leggatt: structural division between prose and poetry - dividing the comic / lowlife characters from the romantic ones.
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Sir Toby - speaks in prose - this is a reflection of his nature (dispite his status) noble in name but in nature = peasants
INTERPRETATIONS AO5
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2012 the Globe - all male cast, reflecting the currently fashionable issues of fluid gender and sexuality
Trevor Nunn's 1996 'Twelfth Night, or What You Will'
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