Gender Roles Played by Viola

Viola is my personal favorite character in The Twelfth Night. Not only is she trying to hide her identity ad  stay alive, she is also trying to fight off a woman from loving her. That to me shows that she is one beautiful and skilled…

class 4-29-13

 Agenda Quiz 15 Plot/Sentence Questions Performance 3 Discussion of act 4 via blog posts Scene from Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night   Quiz 15 Why is Feste confused when he meets Sebastian? To what request from Olivia does Sebastian agree? Where…

The Element of Disguise Causes Confusion Amongst Characters

  (From 4.1.5-10.)   Feste – Well held out, I’faith! No, I do not know you, nor I am not sent to you by my lady to    bid you come speak with her, nor your name s not Mar Cersario,…

No Love for Antonio?

In Act IV of this play, the relationship between Sebastian and Antonio has become well more defined, yet complexes at the same time. When Olivia drags Sebastian away, she mistakes Sebastian as his twin sister, Viola. We know that Olivia…

Feste

As Feste torments the trapped Malvolio in Act IV Scene II, we get the sense that he is being too harsh. Though it was originally Maria and Sir Toby’s plan to seek revenge on Malvolio, Feste seems to go along…

Blog Post #2 – In Love? Or In Love With Being In Love?

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! It had a dying fall; O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet…