"Puritanism was a hot-button issue when Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night"
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Card 9
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"Orsino's agonised sense of betrayal arises more from the loss of Cesario than from the loss of Olivia, a reaction that permits the audience to accept his love for Viola when her true sexuality is revealed"
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Feste is Malvolio's "nemesis" he "celebrates the age-over notion of seizing the moment of pleasure while one is still young"
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The battle between "Lent and Carnival" "Carnival constantly wins the contest for our hearts"
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"In Twelfth Night the spectre of death haunts the romantic protagonists' lives and loves from the start"
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"Edgy satire and romantic melancholy"
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Characters have "to lose themselves in order to find themselves"
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"The social and personal tensions that comedy is supposed to resolve cannot easily be despatched in a 'happy ending'"
