Shakespeare’s 1623 comedic play Twelfth Night complicates sex and social roles, in order to explore further those sexual and social roles. In this play, a male actor plays the female character of Viola (as a male would play all female characters), who is then disguised as the male youth Cesario in the play itself. Disguised ...
William Shakespeare is known to celebrate the use of motifs in his works, reworking the same characters into many different shapes, moods, and sizes while giving them different names and placing them in various plays. King Claudius might have been found palling around with MacBeth, while Feste and Touchstone might have met in the courtyard ...
Shakespeare Against Misogyny Twelfth Night (1602) is a comedic play written by William Shakespeare at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At this period of time society was misogynistic affirming that women are inferior to men. Within Twelfth Night there is supporting evidence that William Shakespeare was against social norms exhibiting non-misogynistic sentiments. William Shakespeare ...
Love is not always as it appears to be, which is what the characters in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night discover. The first love that is encountered in the play is the love that the Duke has for Olivia; however, Olivia does not share this love. It is through the Duke’s incessant need to win Olivia ...
Description of the Viola Flower Viola flowers, also known as Viola cornuta, are exceptionally beautiful annual flowers that look a lot like pansies, but the blooms of viola flowers are generally smaller, and viola flowers don’t have the characteristic dark centers that pansies have. Viola flowers have blooms that are available in solid colors, bicolor, ...
Have you ever wondered what the symphony conductor is looking at when not otherwise occupied with eye to eye communication with various sections of the ensemble? It’s simple. He or she has everyone’s music on the stand, arranged vertically in a specific order. In addition to keeping track of all these parts at once, the ...
In Twelfth Night William Shakespeare shows what dramatic irony is all about, oblierating the 21st century misconceptions about what irony really entails, by having just one character, Viola, be aware of the irony of the situation taking place around her. Dramatic irony is demonstrated through the fact that an audience would know Olivia has fallen ...
Looking back on the major works of any writer, it is nearly impossible to find a single one who is not a formula writer. Perhaps the greatest of all formula writers is none other than the Bard of Stratford-on-Avon, William Shakespeare. When examining Shakespeare’s canon, it becomes apparent that many of his plot devices are ...
In the world of Shakespeare, not all words spoken by his characters are directed toward other characters. You are probably familiar with the soliloquy; familiar enough to be distressed by it, in fact. A soliloquy is a longish interior monologue heard by no other characters and usually spoken when a character is completely alone on ...
