Shakespeare's Festive Comedies
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- Created on: 24-04-18 18:00
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- Shakespeare's Festive Comedies
- By Francois Laroque
- What is it about?
- SP's comedies bring awareness to 'mirth and freedom' by bringing attention to festive traditions
- The crucial features within festive comedy
- Key Quotes
- "songs, music and lyrics are particularly important in Shakespeare's festive comedies"
- " if music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.”
- Music becomes important in the play from the start
- Feste's songs - the outsider who observes
- " if music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.”
- Subplots "take up the tricks of humours and the cruel games of deception and exposure"
- Doubling - "poor lady she were better love a dream"
- "one cannot do away with the basic discrepancy between ritual and reality"
- "My father had a daughter loved a man" - Orsino is unaware of the dramatic irony
- "contribute to the general mirth and to the dancing spirits that accompany the rites of love and restore harmony"
- Links to the plot of 'Twelfth Night' - the doubling, the subplot and various contextual factors such as the riots of the twelfth night period cause chaos that is resolved
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- "songs, music and lyrics are particularly important in Shakespeare's festive comedies"
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