Art and Culture in Twelfth Night
- Created by: nittyniz
- Created on: 10-04-21 13:29
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- Art and Culture
- Perchance he is not drowned (1.2 Viola about Sebastian)
- Conceal me what I am (1.2 Viola)
- Transvestite comedy - rethinking masculinity and femininity
- Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness...And I, poor monster, fond as much on him (2.2 Viola)
- Cross-dressers seen as wicked by Puritans - Stubbes described them as 'monsters,' Viola does not take of disguise at end of play
- A contagious breath... (2.3 Toby describing Feste's voice)
- Plague - Feste singing loudly would be contagious - inside joke with post-plague audience
- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction (3.1 Fabian)
- Pranking Malvolio
- Thou mightst have done this without thy beard... (4.2 Maria about Feste's disguise)
- Echoes Shakespeare's 'Comedy of Errors' - two twins in shipwreck
- Disguise for sake of entertainment of audience - visual humour
- You can fool no more money out of me... (5.1 Orsino)
- Feste is an entertainer - good at getting money from people
- And we'll strive to please you every day (5.1 Feste)
- ...we'll have the bear...and we will fool him black and blue... (2.5 Toby about Malvolio)
- Bear-baiting was an entertainment at time - Malvolio becomes entertainment
- This fellow is wise enough to play the Fool...He must observe their mood on whom he jests the quality of persons...wise man's art... (3.1 Viola about Feste)
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