Lies and Deceit in Twelfth Night
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- Created on: 08-04-21 11:04
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- Lies and Deceit
- There is a fair behaviour in thee, captain, / And though that nature with a beauteous wall / Doft oft close in pollution... (1.2 Viola to Captain)
- Sets up tone of the play - outside does not match inside
- ...this youth's perfections / With an invisible and subtle stealth... (1.5 Olivia about Cesario)
- "Stealth" - victim, Cesario has robbed her, diguise
- You must know of me, then Antonio, my name / Is Sebastian; which I called Roderigo (2.1 Sebastian)
- But let concealment, Like a worm i'th bud, / Feed on her damask cheek (2.4 Viola to Orsino)
- Resonates with relationship between love and food in the play
- I am not what I am (3.1 Viola to Olivia)
- Olivia cannot love her
- ...and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown (4.2 Feste)
- Crack at priests - not virtuous - frauds
- Maintain no words with him, good fellow. (As Feste) Who, I, sir? Not I, sir...(As Sir Topas) Marry, amen (4.2 Feste)
- Voice and language are also costumes and disguises
- Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing... (5.1 Olivia)
- Malvolio is a bad reader
- There is a fair behaviour in thee, captain, / And though that nature with a beauteous wall / Doft oft close in pollution... (1.2 Viola to Captain)
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