Twelfth night

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context
great chain of being- social hierarchies and structurees in medieval/early modern world

god was the highest power everyone else fitted in under him in their 'places'
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context
wheel of fortune- fortune/luck impacted upon peoples lives, this was a common belief
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critics:
Bruce R smith
'masculinity more like a suit of clothing that can be eaily worn or discarded as the wearer chooses'
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critics:
Simone de Beauvoir
'one is not born but rather becomes a woman'
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critics:
Judith Butler
'gender is in no way a stable identity'
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critics:
David Bevington
malvolio is ' a well suited target for satire... malvolio belives in sobriety is a hypocrite and malvolio brings his downfall on himself'
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critics:
john hollander
'yet real exterior fluids of all kinds, wine, tears, sea water, urine and rain bathe the whole of Illyiria
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act 1
scene 1
quotes
'if music be the food of love play on'

'the appetit may sicken and so die'

'that it alone is high fantastical'
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act 1
scene 1
plot
curio comes and asks if Orsino wants to hunt
valentine returns from oliviias, she is in mourning for 7 years due to ded brother
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act 1
scene 1
themes
desire and love- orsino obsessed with the concept of love- contrasting to olivias feelins for her ded brother.

melancholy-
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wheel of fortune- fortune/luck impacted upon peoples lives, this was a common belief

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critics:
Bruce R smith

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critics:
Simone de Beauvoir

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critics:
Judith Butler

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