Society and Class in Twelfth Night

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  • Created on: 13-04-21 10:32
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  • Society and Class
    • Till I had made mine own occasion mellow, what my estate is (1.2 Viola)
      • Hides her class as well as gender
    • Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats. He's a very fool and a prodigal (1.3 Maria about Andrew)
      • Nobleman spends too much
    • She'll none o' the Count. She'll not match above her degree... (1.3 Andrew about Olivia)
    • ...right noble is his blood...I shall have share in this most happy work (5.1 Orsino on Olivia marrying Sebastian)
      • Social status - Orsino held back from Cesario?
    • My masters, are you mad? Or what are you?...Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? (2.3 Malvolio to T and A)
    • Go, sir, rub your chain... (2.3 Toby to Malvolio)
      • Chain that stewards used to wear
    • The lady of the Strachy married the yeoman of the wardrobe (2.5 Malvolio on marrying Olivia)
    • Marry, I saw your niece do more favors to the count's servingman... (3.2 Andrew to Toby)
    • You can fool no more money out of me... (5.1 Orsino to Feste)
      • Idea that actors were like servants
    • Why, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness 'thrust upon them (5.1 Feste)
  • Elizabethan belief that equal marriages were happier - Edward Tilney
    • If Andrew marries Olivia, Toby will have access to fortune

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