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Darama 1 Twelfth Night As A Comedy'' PDF
Darama 1 Twelfth Night As A Comedy'' PDF
Subject; Drama 1
Question: 1 Assignment:
Section: Morning
Department: English
Twelfth Night
By William Shakespeare
So, all these things put together you can see how they kind of relate to play
of Twelfth Night. A lot people wearing masks and disguises pretending to be
people they are not the idea of Lord of misrule or mischief lots mischief and plots
are hatched during the play so a very appropriate play for this Twelfth night.
Features of Elizabethan
Comedy
Separation and unification
First feature is separation and unification this one primarily related to
Viola and his brother Sebastian they were separated from each other
in a shipwrecked. Both of them did not know which one is survive
both thought about each other that he or she is died. But by the end
of the play they are finally unified again and put back together. So we
are rooting for them throughout the play to finally get to be together
again.
Mistaken identity
There are plenty of mistaken identities in terms of people mistaking
Viola as Cesario although she is intentionally pretending to be someone
else but particularly the point in the play which Olivia mistakes Sebastian
for Viola it actually marries brother rather than the sister would be an
instance of mistaken identity.
Clever/trickster servants
Clever trickster and servants we definitely have that in the Twelfth Night.
So, Maria and Sir Toby and even Feste the jester are all kind of smarter than
their masters and Viola (Cesario) who is the servant of Orsino is also
smarter probably than Orsino she is probably the smarter person in the
play.
A mummer or fool
A mummer of fool off course we have beasties the jester who walks around
singing a song.
II. Love
In those times, the female roles were played by young boys. Like Portia in
the MOV disguises as the lawyer, Olivia disguise as Cesario.
Characters list;
Duke Orsino
Olivia
Viola (cesario)
Sebastian
Uncle Toby
Andrew
Maria
Malvolio
Antonio (Captain)
Summary:
Intead she decides to disguise herself as a man on captain’s advise , taking on the
name of Cesario, and goes to work in the household of Duke Orsino.
Act-2, Scene-V
Meanwhile, Sebastian, who is alive after all but believes his sister viola to
be dead , arrives in Illyria along with his protector, Antonio in spite of the fact he
and Orsino are the old enemies.
Meanwhile, Antonio arrested by Orsino’s officers and begs Cesario for help
mistaking him for Sebastian. Viola denies knowing Antonio.
Malvolio supposed madness has allowed the gleeful Maria, Toby, and the
rest to lock Malvolio into a small, dark room for his treatment. Feste dresses up as
“Sir Topas”, a priest and pretend to examine Malvolio , declaring him definitely
insane in spite of his protest.
Eventually, viola and Orsino make their way to Olivia’s house, where Olivia
welcomes Cesario as her husband, thinking him to be Sebastian, whom she has
just married. Orsino is furious but when Sebastian appears on the scene and all is
revealed. The siblings are joyfully reunited, and Orsino realizes that he loves Viola
, now that he knows that she is a woman, and asks to marry him.
We discovered that Sir Toby and Maria also married privately. Finally
someone remembers and lets him out of dark room. The reveled in full, and the
embittered Malvolio storms off, leaving the happy couples to their celebration.