Twelfth Night Review Sheet
Characters: Write a short description of each character.
1.
Olivia
2.
Duke Orsino
3.
Viola
4.
Cesario
5.
Sebastian
6.
Sir Toby
7.
Sir Andrew
8.
Antonio
9.
Maria
10.
Malvolio
11.
Feste
Setting: Where does the play take place?
Themes: Identify and explain three themes from the play. Support your theme with specific details from the play.
Dramatic Irony: What is dramatic irony? Describe three examples of dramatic irony in Twelfth
Night. How does Shakespeare use dramatic irony to develop a central idea in the play?
Love: Fill in the blanks below.
Orsino loves ____________________. Olivia loves ____________________. Viola loves
____________________. Orsino marries ____________________. Olivia marries
____________________.
Quotes: Read the following quotes from the play and explain what they mean in your own words.
Quote
Orsino: If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.
That strain again, it had a dying fall.
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour. Enough, no more,
’Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
[Music ceases]
O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there,
Of what validity and pitch so e’er,
Explanation

But falls into abatement and low price
Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.
Viola: As I am man,
My state is desperate for my master's love;
As I am woman,--now alas the day!--
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
O time! thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me to untie!
Malvolio: In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Feste: Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
Orsino: If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,
I shall have share in this most happy wrack.
[To VIOLA] Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times
Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.
Viola: And all those sayings will I overswear,
And all those swearings keep as true in soul
As doth that orbèd continent the fire
That severs day from night.
Orsino: Give me thy hand,
And let me see thee in thy woman’s weeds.