Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Twelfth Night Critics
- Dr Sophie Duncan
- Love
- "Orsino's language describes love as a series of transformations"
- "The role of the servant is an entirely erotic one"
- "Rejection and separation [from love] will
bring about the death of a lover"
- Comedy
- "Twelfth Night is un-complicatedly a comedy"
- "There is an explicit commitment in the
play to mischief and merry-making"
- "Feste overlaps most explicitly with the tragedies"
- "Twelfth Night is a farewell to comedy"
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- "The comic confusion the characters go through permanently changes and liberates them"
- C.L. Barber
- "Shakespeare's comedies reconcile,
restore and maintain the social order...
despite the ambiguity of the comic
ending"