Anxieties of Intimacy: Twelfth Night
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- Created on: 26-04-18 11:46
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- Gender and theatricality in Twelfth Night
- What is it about?
- Homosexuality
- Orsino
- The Illusion of theatre
- Gender cross overs - men playing women playing men
- All-male company - "calls attention to the principle of layers of gender identity and so keeps spectators alert to all the layers involved"
- "Boy actors served as catamites within all-male companies"
- a boy kept for homosexual practices.
- "All is semblative a woman's part"
- "Boy actors served as catamites within all-male companies"
- All-male company - "calls attention to the principle of layers of gender identity and so keeps spectators alert to all the layers involved"
- Homosexuality
- Key Quotes
- All-male company - "calls attention to the principle of layers of gender identity and so keeps spectators alert to all the layers involved"
- "Boy actors served as catamites within all-male companies"
- a boy kept for homosexual practices.
- "All is semblative a woman's part"
- "Boy actors served as catamites within all-male companies"
- "such reflective allusion to the actors maleness generates emotional crosscurrents counter to the play's drive towards heterosexual union"
- "Orsino's agonised sense of betrayal arises more from the loss of Cesario than from the loss of Olivia"
- "Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death - kill what I love? A savage jealousy that sometimes savours nobly"
- "Orsino twice refers to her as if she were male"
- "In modern productions, the allusions to Viola's male identity are comic rather than reflexive or metatheatrical and the marriages that end the play seems 'natural'"
- "Fortune forbid my outsides have not charmed her" + "disguise, I see though art a wickedness"
- "Then think you right: I am not what I am"
- "Calls attention to the principle of layers of gender identity"
- "Make me a willow cabin at your gate" - Irony that the most beautiful love in the play is woman to woman
- All-male company - "calls attention to the principle of layers of gender identity and so keeps spectators alert to all the layers involved"
- Michael Shapiro, 1995
- What is it about?
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