12th Night : Antonio Flashcards
Love and desire - homosexual love
“If you will not murder me for my love…”
“let me be your servant.”
- Antonio Act 2,1
Love and Desire - Homosexual love
“I have many enemies in Orsino’s court…”
“Else would I shortly see thee there /
But come what may I do adore thee so /
That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.”
- Antonio Act 2,1
Love and Desire - Homosexual love
“I could not stay behind you. My desire…”
“more sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth, and not all love to see you.”
- Antonio Act 3,3
Love and Desire - Homosexual love
“Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge…”
“with viewing of the town. There you shall have me.”
- Antonio 3,3
“have me” slang for sex
Love and Desire - Homosexual love
“Haply your eye shall light upon some toy…”
“you have desire to purchase; and your store, I think, is not for idle markets.”
- Antonio 3,3
Love and Desire - Homosexual love
“One, sir, that for his love…”
“dares yet to do more than you have heard him brag to you he will.”
- Antonio 3,4 (threatening Toby)
Love as a cause of suffering
“Do not tempt my misery…”
“lest that it make me so unsound a man as to upbraid you with those kindnesses that I have done for you.”
- Antonio Act 3,4
Love as a cause of suffering
“Relieved him with such sanctity of love…”
“and to his image, which methought did promise most venerable worth, did I devotion.”
- Antonio 3,4
Love as a cause of suffering
“But O, how vile an idol…”
“proves this god.”
- Antonio 3,4
Antonio as loyal and valiant
“Antonio never yet was…”
“thief or pirate.”
- Antonio 5,1
Love as a cause of suffering
“A witchcraft…”
“drew me hither.”
- Antonio 5,1
Love and desire / love as a cause of suffering
“My love, without retention or restraint, all his in dedication…”
“for his sake did I expose myself - pure for his love - into the danger of this adverse town.”
- Antonio Act 5,1
Love and desire - homosexual love
“And for three months before, no…”
“interim, not a minute’s vacancy, both day and night did we keep company.”
- Antonio 5,1
“Antonio’s instant adoration puts him in the same catagory as Olivia and Orsino…”
“he is a victim of the prenatural power weilded by the Messaline twins.”
- Will Tosh
