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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night. What You Will. Date. Twelfth Night was probably written in 1600 or 1601. External Evidence: John Manningham's diary: Internal Evidence: Malvolio's Face. The Titles. Feast of the Epiphany It’s significance It’s absence Will Desire Appetite. Role of Comedy.

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Twelfth Night

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  1. Twelfth Night What You Will

  2. Date • Twelfth Night was probably written in 1600 or 1601. • External Evidence: John Manningham's diary: • Internal Evidence: Malvolio'sFace

  3. The Titles • Feast of the Epiphany • It’s significance • It’s absence • Will • Desire • Appetite

  4. Role of Comedy • Sidney’s Ideas • Source’s Ideas

  5. Shakespeare's Advances as a Comic Dramatist • Even Darker Comedies Follow • Troilus and Cressida • Measure for Measure • Why this isn’t as dark • Despite flaws, characters are basically good • Temporary Insanity

  6. Comic Techniques • Love Triangle • Disguise • Mistaken Identity

  7. The Impediments to Love • Lack of self-knowledge • Orsino • Olivia • Minor characters • Lack of knowledge of others • Polar Extremes • Love of dead • Unrequited love

  8. Viola’s Middle Ground • in order to place herself between the two extremes-- • Orsino and Olivia, pure sensuality and pure abstinence, • Viola must become something of a neuter, a eunuch (she says)--or at least an androgynous figure, • Neither male nor female, yet both male and female at the same time.

  9. Irony • Cesario as (male) confidante to Orsino • Cesario as (male) beloved of Olivia • Orsino’s sense of understanding women II.4.22

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