'The Role of Music in 'Twelfth Night' + 'Anxieties of intimacy: Twelfth Night'

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Indulgence + Festivity: What Critic?
'The Roll of Music in Twelfth Night' - John Hollander, 1956
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Quote 1
"Develops an ethic of indulgence based on the notion that the personality of any individual is a function of the dynamic appetites that may govern his behaviour" - Over indulgence in the play (Sir T's drinking, Orsino's love + Olivia's mourning)
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Quote 2
"Surfeiting the appetite that it will sicken and die leaving fulfilled the tempered, harmonious self" (Characters feel that over indulgent will give them what they desire)
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Quote 3
"Exterior fluids of all kinds ... the rain of inevitability ... in constant reference throughout the play" - Fluids are important in Twelfth Night;"hungry as the sea" + "as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in Illyria"
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Orsino + homosexuality: What Critic?
'Anxieties of intimacy: Twelfth Night' 1995
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Quote 1
"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 sex is revealed"
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Text link (Q1)
"Like the Egyptian thief at point of death - kill what I love? A savage jealousy that sometimes savours nobly"
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Quote 2
"boy actors served as catamites within all-male productions" - Context
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Quote 3
"Such reflective allusions to the actors maleness generated emotional crosscurrents counter to the plays drive towards heterosexual union" - "And since you have called me master for so long, here is my hand"
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Quote 4
"calls attention to the principle layers of gender identity and so keeps spectators alert to all the layers involved" - "all is semblative a womans part" (Ironic as she is a man playing a woman playing a man)
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Quote 5
"In modern productions, the allusions to Viola's male identity are comic rather than reflexive or metatheatrical and the marriages that end the play seem 'natural'" - "Then think you right, I am not what I am"
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Quote 6
"Orsino twice refers to her as if she were male"
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Card 2

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"Develops an ethic of indulgence based on the notion that the personality of any individual is a function of the dynamic appetites that may govern his behaviour" - Over indulgence in the play (Sir T's drinking, Orsino's love + Olivia's mourning)

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Quote 1

Card 3

Front

"Surfeiting the appetite that it will sicken and die leaving fulfilled the tempered, harmonious self" (Characters feel that over indulgent will give them what they desire)

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

"Exterior fluids of all kinds ... the rain of inevitability ... in constant reference throughout the play" - Fluids are important in Twelfth Night;"hungry as the sea" + "as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in Illyria"

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

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'Anxieties of intimacy: Twelfth Night' 1995

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