Disguises In Twelfth Night Essay

Love is seen as bordering on insanity, a frivolous game of ever-changing affections, and...

Salinger (1974) calls Twelfth Night a “comedy about comedy” in which Shakespeare demonstrates his “fundamental debt to the earlier Renaissance tradition of comic playwriting and his abiding sense of detachment from it” (pg 242), and it is from...

Although some Shakespearean plays carve out a more passive, male-defined role for women, such as that which is exemplified through Ophelia’s obedience to Polonius in Hamlet, the comedies of As You Like It and Twelfth Night explore women’s...

When Lady Olivia first beseeches Viola, a girl disguised as the male page Cesario, to love her, the two share a repartee that seems to question Cesario's affection for the countess.

But as Viola responds to Olivia, "you do think you are not what...

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night has a host of characters: a cross-dressing woman, an uppity, lower-class servant, a quick-witted, tricky gentlewoman, a rowdy, vulgar nobleman and his misguided friend.

With so many characters to keep track of, an array...

In Shakespeare's Othello, the primary obstacle in Othello and Desdemona's relationship is Othello’s race, and hence, his status as an outsider.

This difference becomes a barrier when Brabantio objects to their marriage, however, it plays much more...

The identity of people, things and ideas are swept away under the facade of...

The character of Sebastian in "Twelfth Night" represents the dynamic factor in an otherwise static equation.