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Repartee

Twelfth Night: Form and Content. Repartee. Repartee is:. Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies. 5.1.9-31. Duke: I know thee well. How dost thou, my good fellow? Clown: Truly sir, the better for my foes and the worse for my friends.

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Repartee

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  1. Twelfth Night: Form and Content Repartee

  2. Repartee is: Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies

  3. 5.1.9-31 Duke: I know thee well. How dost thou, my good fellow? Clown: Truly sir, the better for my foes and the worse for my friends. Duke: Just the contrary, the better for thy friends. Clown: No, sir, the worse. Duke: How can that be? Clown: Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends I am abused: so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends and the better for my foes. Duke: Why, this is excellent. Clown: By my troth, sir, no, though it please you to be one of my friends. Duke: Thou shalt not be the worse for me. There’s gold. Clown: But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would you could make it another. Duke: Oh, you give me ill counsel. Clown: Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once, and let your flesh and blood obey it. Duke: Well, I will be so much a sinner, to be a double-dealer; there’s another.

  4. Twelfth Night: Form and Content Blank verse

  5. Blank verse is: Poetry written in regular metrical (iambic pentameter) but unrhymed lines.

  6. 5.1.67-87 Orsino, noble sir, Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me. Antonio never yet was thief or pirate, Though I confess, on base and ground enough, Orsino’s enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither. That most ingrateful boy there by your side, From the rude sea’s enraged and foamy mouth Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was. His life I gave him and did thereto add My love, without retention or restraint, All his in dedication; for his sake Did I expose myself, pure for his love, Into the danger of this adverse town; Drew to defend him when he was beset: Where being apprehended, his false cunning, Not meaning to partake with me in danger, Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance, And grew a twenty years removed thing While one could wink; denied me mine own purse, Which I had recommended to his use Not half an hour before.

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