TN quotes

“If music be the food of love, play on (I, i)

Orsino (I, i)

What country, friends, is this?” (I, ii)

Viola (I, ii)

“You must confine yourself within/the modest limits of order” (I, iii)

Maria to Sir Toby (I, iii)

“a very fool” (i, iii) “a coward”

Maria talking about Sir Andrew (I, iii)

“That say thou art a man” (I, iv)

Orsino to Viola(I, iv)

“you are no stranger” (I, iv)

Valentine to Viola talking about how she is now a confident of Orsinos (I, iv)

“Better a witty fool, then a foolish wit” (I, v,)

reference 1 Corinthians biblical proverb Feste antimetabole (repetition) (I, v,)

The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven” (I, v)

Feste (I, v) talking to Olivia

“ a barren rascal” (I, v)

Malvolio calls Feste (I, v)

“Like a drowned man” (I, v)

Feste responding to Olivia’s question about drunken man overindulgence (I, v)

Viola talking about her “part” and admits that “I am not that I play” (I, v)

Viola talking her role (I, v)

I took great pains to study it, and ‘tis poetical” “my speech” (I, v,)

Viola referring to Orsino’s letter (I, v,)

Olivia “what is your parentage?” (I, v,)

Olivia asking about Violas background said twice (I, v,)

Even so quickly may one catch the plague?” (I, v,)

Olivia fallen in love with viola soliloquy (I, v,)

“What is decreed must be - and be this so” (I, v,)

Olivia and fate (I, v,)

“I am the man” (II, ii)

violas only soliloquy now understands Olivia loves her (II, ii)

“ O time thou must untangle this not I. (II, ii,)

Viola passage of time cant see a solution (II, ii)

what time to come is still unsure…. Youth’s a stuff will not endure (II, iii,)

Fetes song - people live a short live to the full (II, iii,)

"the devil a puritan that he is." (ii, iii)

maria talking about malvolio (ii, iii)

Sir Toby “But I will never die” (II, iii,)

Sir Toby singing song - indeneial - childish view (II, iii,)

Sir Andrew “I was adored once too” (II, iii,)

Sir Andrew feels sorry/inferior compared to others / vunerability (II, iii,)

Orsino says women’s heart “lack retention” and they should “take an elder than herself” (II, iv)

Orsino women can not love like men and they should marry someone older than her

(II, iv)

Feste “pleasure will be paid, one time or another. (II, iv)

Fest always a price to pay happiness / melancholy (II, iv)

Viola “were I a woman” (II, iv)

Viola almost the only use of I she says = strain of identities (II, iv)

“Her c’s her u’s and her t’s

and thus makes she her great p’s” ( II, v)

“I do not fool myself… my lady loves me” (II,v)

Malvolio (II, v)

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em” (II, v)

Maria’s letter to Malvolio he believes he will have greatness thrust - reflection on society (II, v)

Olivia becomes aware of the “waste of time” mourning (III, i)

Olivia and her mourning (III,i)

“Stay!” “I prithee tell me what thou think’st of me “ (III,i)

Olivia becomes desperate (III, i)

“I am not what I am “ (III,i )

Violia ( III, i)

"this fellow is wise enough to play the fool." (iii, i)

viola talking about feste amazed at his ability to be wise and foolish(iii, i)

“ I do not without danger walk these streets” (III, iii)

Antonio to Sebastian (III, iii)

“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction” (III, iv)

Fabian (III, iv) - illusions and deception - play within a play so ridiculous so unbelievable

Olivia “I am as mad as he, if sad and merry madness equal be” (III,iv)

Olivia sadness/ joy both equally irrational ends on a rhyming couplet (III,iv)

“You are idle shallow things, I am not your element” (III, iv)

Malvolio superiority self importance arrogance -element - drunken behaviour (III, iv)

Sir Toby “I'll ride your horse as well as I ride you” (III, iv)

Sir Toby can control sir Andrew (III, iv)

“Nothing that is so is so”(IV, i)

Feste (IV, i) topsy-turvy world of Illyria reality put into question

“Never was man thus wronged”(IV, ii)

Malvolio (IV, ii) feels he is being a victim but doesnt fully understand

“There is no darkness but ignorance” (IV, ii)

Feste (IV, ii) ignorance prevents people from understanding the world around them

“tis wonder that enwraps me thus…not madness” (IV, iii)

sebastian cannot believe his luck dream or madness (IV, iii) ability to stay grounded = pragmatic nature compared to other characters

"one face, one voice, one habit, and two persons!" (v, i)

Orsino twins repetition appearances deceive / love not not based on what we see immediately (v, i)

But when in other habits you are seen, Orsino’s mistress, and his fancy’s queen. (V, i)

Orsino rhyming couplet to end play before Feste song - ending ins postponed post play - never see Viola in her own clothes - homoerotic tinge is preserved (V, i)

Barber’s book Shakespeare's Festive Comedy (1959)

Shakespeare dramatizes the tensions between the festive world of revelry and the more sobering reality of everyday life,

H Bloom’s book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998)

The play is both an entertainment and a probing investigation into the human soul."

Garber’s her book Shakespeare After All (2004)

It’s a play that doesn’t just explore love, but explores how identity itself is a performance."

DRAPER, J his book, The Twelfth Night of Shakespeare’s Audience, 1950

critiques the rigid societal expectations of gender and class.

Editor WELLS, Twelfth Night. Critical Essays, 1986

"Twelfth Night invites the audience into a world of delightful confusion,

Butler Bodies That Matter (1993)

"Gender is an act which has been rehearsed

Smith, Shakespeare and Masculinity ( 2000)

gender "is more like a suit” that can be put on and taken off , rather “than a matter of biological destiny” … “masculinity is a matter of appearances."

deuteronomy 22:5

A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God

1 Samuel 16:7

the lord looks on the heart

Galatians 3:28

There is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.