Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

Act 1
1. Scene 1
  1. 'If music be the food of love, play on. Give ,me excess of it'
  2. 'That instant i was turned into a hart, and my desires, like fell and cruel hounds , e'er since pursue me'
  3. The play opens with the duke Orsino professing his love for olivia
2. Scene 2
  1. 'Conceal me what I am'
  2. viola believes her brother was killed in the shipwreck and decides to disguise herself as her brother
3. Scene 3
  1. 'What a plague means my niece to take the death of her brother thus? I'm sure care's an enemy to life.'
  2. Introduced to the sub-plot
  3. humour
4. Scene 4
  1. 'Diana's lip is not more smooth and rubious'
    1. erotic blazon
  2. 'Thy small pipe is as the maidens organ, shrill and sound'
  3. 'And all is semblative a woman's part'
5. Scene 5
  1. 'Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool'
  2. feste introduced
    1. humour
  3. Malvolio introduced
    1. humour/darkness
  4. Viola sent to woo Olivia
    1. 'I swear I am not that I play'
    2. 'Your lord does not know my mind: I cannot love him'
    3. 'Make me a willow cabin at your gate'
Act 2
1. Scene 1
  1. Revealed to the audience that Sebastian is alive
    1. Dramatic irony
  2. 'She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair'
  3. 'My bosom is full of kindness, and I am yet so near the manners of my mother'
  4. gender
  5. sexuality
2. Scene 2
  1. Viola realises that Olivia is in love with her
  2. 'Poor lady she were better love a dream. Disguise, i see, thou art a wickedness'
  3. Disguise
  4. 'And I, poor monster'
3. Scene 3
  1. 'Would you have a love song, or a song of good life'
    1. 'A love song, a love song'
  2. Feste's song
    1. 'Journeys end in lovers meeting'
    2. 'That can sing both high and low'
  3. 'I can write very like my lady your niece'
Acr 3
Act 4
Act 5

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