Twelfth Night Study Guide

3 characters in love with Olivia

Orsino, Malvolio, Andrew

Main setting for the play

Illyria

3 silly things Malvolio does when he thinks Olivia has written him a letter

Wears yellow stockings, smiles constantly, sings

The character with the last lines in the play

Feste (The Fool)

Another name for heaven

Elysium

Characters that trick Malvolio with the letter ruse

Maria, Toby, Feste, Fabian, Andrew

Character Orsino wants to kill

Antonio

How Feste is disguised when he visits Malvolio in the cell

As a priest

Who plays the role of the priest Tobias

Feste

Where Antonio and Sebastian meet

The Elephant bar

What upsets Antonio the most when he meets up with “Sebastian”

He feels betrayed

What does Olivia show Cesario when he says she will draw the curtain and show the picture

Her face

When the play takes place

January 6th, 12th night after Christmas

How people in England celebrate 12th Night

Epiphany

Secondary title for Twelfth Night

What You Will

Who both Olivia and Viola mourn

Their brothers

Who really wrote the letter from Olivia to Malvolio

Maria

Who Olivia ends up marrying

Sebastian

What Viola leaves in the care of the sea captain

Her clothes

Why Antonio doesn’t want to be seen in Illyria

He is an enemy of the Duke

How did Antonio save Sebastian

Saved Sebastian from drowning

How Feste earns his living

Singing

How Feste, Toby, and Andrew disturb Olivia’s house

Being loud and drunk

Who Viola ends up marrying

Orsino

Why Maria plays the trick on Malvolio

Wants him to relax, be more calm

How Olivia feels about Malvolio

Thinks he is crazy

Why Andrew and Cesario fight

Andrew wants Olivia, but Cesario has won Olivia’s affections

Amount of characters that know about how Viola feels about Orsino

Zero

When in the play Viola dresses in her “women’s weeds”

At the end, at the wedding

How Sebastian reacts when Antonio asks for the money back

Confusion, he feels insulted

If music be the food of love, play on.

Orsino

And what should I do in Illyria?

Viola

To pay this debt of love but to a brother, how will she love when the rich golden shaft hath killed the flock of all affections else that live in her.

Orsino

As you know what great ones do, the less will prattle of.

Sea Captain

Be you his eunuch, and your mute I’ll be. When my tongue blabs, then let mine yees not see.

Captain

Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.

Viola

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Feste

The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul being in heaven.

Feste

Let him send no more, unless, perchance you come to me again to tell me how he takes it.

Olivia

O time, thou must untangle this, not I; it is too hard a knot for me t’untie!

Viola

For women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

Orsino

Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; if it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

Sebastian

I’ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love to spite a raven’s heart within a dove.

Orsino

One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons!

Orsino

That quaffing and drinking will undo you.

Maria