Twelth Night Critical Opinion

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'Viola's role playing questions the idea of a naturally dtermined gender'
Stevie Davids
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'Shakespeare affirms not only the plasticity of gender, but the rhetorical construction of sex as well'
Lorna Hutson
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'Viola's transsexual disguise makes her a pontential attraction for both Olivia and Orsino'
Tonkin
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'All the major characters in the play are engaged in role playing, not to say locked in their respective roles'
Tonkin
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'Orsino is the suitor...Olivia is the grief-stricken sister; Malvolio is the poor player who seeks to assume roles and cannot'
Tonkin
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'It makes us laugh at the follies of mankind'
William Hazlitt
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The scenes of twelth night are carefully woven together in order to create tension and humour'
London School of Journalism
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'Move audeinces thriugh release to clarification, making distinctions between false care and true freedom'
C.L. Barber
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(Malvolio) 'Even in his abused state of chains and darkness, a sort of greatness never seems to desert him'
Charles Lamb
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The Duke Orsino is totally lovesick- a true Petrarchan lover. He is turned inward, self-regarding, deeply self-centred'
Tonkin
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'Considered a true Elizabethan romantic comedy, which offers a penetrating examination of gender roles, sexual attraction and the nature of love'
Enotes
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'The merging types of love , of gender, of love and friendship'
Jan Kott speaks of the 'eortic delirium of the play'
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'River Action', actions not closley linked are moving in parallel to be intergrated at the end of the play'
London School of Journalism states that the structire of the play can be described as...
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