'Marriage as comic closure' by Lisa Hopskins
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- Created on: 24-04-18 16:42
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- Marriage as Comic Closure
- Lisa Hopkins
- What is it about?
- Emphasises social bonds and continuity (unlike tragedy which focuses on the individual)
- Explores marriage and its relation to comedy in the play
- Comedy is expected at the end of Shakespearean comedy - Shakespeare frequently disrupted this expectation
- Marriage is central to Shakespearean comedy
- 'Marriage in Shakespeare's comedies'
- Key Quotes
- "despite the traditional view that marriage provides comic closure, this is, in fact, very rarely achieved"
- Some characters achieve no closure - Antonio, Feste, Sir Andrew + Malvolio
- "marriage is used as the mainspring of the comedy"
- Comedy in doubling - 'Cesario, husband, stay!' 'Husband?'
- "The audience is repeatedly encouraged to expect that the proceedings will be appropriately closed with a wedding"
- "it focuses primarily on the experience of the group, as opposed to the individualist"
- "used to provide comic closure"
- "Cesario, come / For so you shall be while you are a man / But when in other habits you are seen / Orsino's mistress, and his fancy's queen"
- "the spectator will be forced to question both the meaning of the events he or she has witnessed"
- "If this were played upon a stage now, I would condemn it as an improbable fiction"
- "despite the traditional view that marriage provides comic closure, this is, in fact, very rarely achieved"
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