30 Jan Background: - Celebrated 12 nights after christmas - The play has a quality of impulsiveness, lowering the stakes - Social classes are flipped and subverted - A love letter written to Jude who lost her twin siblings? - There is a different take on grief and death in this play compared to Hamlet - Genders are segregated - Hermetically sealed world, with no women??? Viola is only able to enter the world disguised as a man The world of olivia is a messy world - Olivia is in possession of her own social status, own fortunes, and thus controls who she wants to marry - The return of Feste (the clown), and good cheer - Difference between clowns and fools!!! - Clowns are more physical, while fools jest with words What does it mean to establish a boy actor playing a teenage girl? 1.5 - 1 Feb Love at first sight “The plague”--> love sickness? We understand that olivia falls for cesario in this scene with her loose tongue - “What is your Parentage?” indicates she is interested in Cesario - Blazon, listing the physical attributes of the love interest in a poetical form - “Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit” - Cesario presents himself as a passionate lover as compared to Orsino - “Above my fortunes…” Characters don’t like Malvolio because Toby thinks Malvolio is too virtuous and Puritan. Shakespeare making fun of Puritans, as described by Maria. Thinks that the audience doesn’t like Puritans as well and will take pleasure in 2.5, the scene ridiculing Malvolio 6 Feb Sonnet 18: shall i compare thee to a summer’s day? Pg. 1787→ viola and feste’s conversation Feste denying the fact that he is a fool, the real fool is the husband. in the space that is going to be reconjured, there is not going to be space for feste. When you loose the fool and clown you lose a sense of joy, you lose mirth
