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1. An ancient area on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, between contemporary Croatia, Albania, and Montenegro. -
What is Illyria?
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2) Assuming an identity through the clothes one wears a. Viola: “Conceal me what I am, and be my aid For such disguise as haply shall become The form of my intent. I’ll serve this duke.” (I ii.) or b. Viola: “Make me a willow cabin at your gate And call upon my soul within the house. Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.” (I v.)
What is a. Viola: “Conceal me what I am, and be my aid For such disguise as haply shall become The form of my intent. I’ll serve this duke.” (I ii.)
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FOOL Good madonna, why mournest thou? OLIVIA Good fool, for my brother’s death. FOOL I think his soul is in hell, madonna. OLIVIA I know his soul is in heaven, fool. FOOL The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen. (Act I, scene iv)
What is Comedy of Manners?
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. (5.1.144-145)
What is Anaphora?
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Type of comedy in which the central character is a young woman, Viola, who disguises herself as a pageboy, Cesario. -
What is transvestite comedy
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In Renaissance England ________ was referred to as a “feast of misrule.”
What is Twelfth Night
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3) Females are more in tune with romantic emotions, while men are more passionate. a. Orsino: “There is no woman’s sides Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart.” (II iv.) or b. Olivia: “Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be, and be this so.” (I v.)
What is a. Orsino: “There is no woman’s sides Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart.” (II iv.)
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SIR ANDREW (to MARIA) Bless you, fair shrew. MARIA And you too, sir. SIR TOBY BELCH Accost, Sir Andrew, accost. SIR ANDREW What’s that? SIR TOBY BELCH My niece’s chambermaid. SIR ANDREW Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance. MARIA My name is Mary, sir. SIR ANDREW Good Mistress Mary Accost— SIR TOBY BELCH You mistake, knight. “Accost” is front her, board her, woo her, assail her. (Act I, scene iii)
What is Comedy of Manners?
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Love’s night is noon. (3.1.114-115)
What is Paradox?
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(Comic Device) Viola What means this lady? Fortune forbid my outside have not charmed her! She made good view of me, indeed so much That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue, For she did speak in starts distractedly. She loves me, sure! The cunning of her passion Invites me in this churlish messenger. (Act II, scene ii)
What is Farse?
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References the holiday season of ritualized disorder and revelry, where you can act out all your fantasies.
What does Twelfth Night mean?
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5) One’s station in life does dot determine intelligence. a. Viola: “O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me to untie!” (II ii.) or b. Viola: “This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit… For folly that he wisely shows is fit. But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.” (III i.)
What is b. Viola: “This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit… For folly that he wisely shows is fit. But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.” (III i.)
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SIR ANDREW Taurus! That’s sides and heart. SIR TOBY BELCH No, sir, it is legs and thighs. Let me see the caper. (SIR ANDREW dances) Ha, higher! Ha, ha, excellent! (Act I, scene iii)
What is Low Comedy?
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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. (1.1.1-3)
What is Metaphor?
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You will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard (3.2.28) (Literary Device)
What is Simile?
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Near the middle of his career around 1601. -
When did Shakespeare write Twelfth Night?
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6) Falling in love at first glance mainly through the other’s appearance. a. Fool: “Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in ’t, and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown.” (IV ii.) b. Orsino: “Why, so I do, the noblest that I have. Oh, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purged the air of pestilence. That instant was I turned into a hart, And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, E'er since pursue me.” (I i.)
What is b. Orsino: “Why, so I do, the noblest that I have. Oh, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purged the air of pestilence. That instant was I turned into a hart, And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, E'er since pursue me.” (I i.)
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VIOLA    I’ll do my best To woo your lady—(aside) Yet, a barful strife—Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife. (Act I, scene 4)
What is irony?
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While one would wink (5.1.90)
What is Alliteration?
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A common, pedestrian name for a period in the Church calendar called Epiphany, or the twelfth night of the Christmas celebration (January 6)
Where did the title originate?
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What you Will -
What is the alternative name for Twelfth Night?
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1) Miscommunication tends to be interpreted as insanity. a. Malvolio: “Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It did come to his hands, and commands shall be executed. I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.” (III iv. ) Olivia: “Why, this is very midsummer madness.” ( III iv.) or b. Olivia: “I do I know not what and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.” (I v.)
What is a. Malvolio: “Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It did come to his hands, and commands shall be executed. I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.” (III iv. ) Olivia: “Why, this is very midsummer madness.” ( III iv.)
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Antonio For his sake Did I expose myself, pure for his love, Into the danger of this adverse town, Drew to defend him when he was beset, Where being apprehended, his false cunning, (Not meaning to partake with me in danger) Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance. (Act 5, scene 1)
What is farce?
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Sir Topas, Sir Topas (4.2.50) -referring to Sir Topas from Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Rime of Sir Topas”
What is Allusion
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Good night, Penthesilea. (2.3.177) (Literary Device)
What is Verbal Irony?