Act 1 Flashcards
What are the first lines of the play?
Orsino: ‘if music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, surfeiting. The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again, it had a dying fall.
What does Orsino say in Act One Scene One which links to disguise?
‘so full of shapes is fancy that it alone is fantastical’
love is like a hallucination - nothing else is so imaginative and fantastical
What does Curio ask Orsino if he’ll be hunting in Act One Scene One and what does he respond?
‘will you go hunt… a hart?’
‘why so I do, the noblest that I have’
I am already hunting a hart (stag pun), but it’s also my heart being hunted
Which quote in Act One Scene One sees Orsino’s hope for Olivia’s love buoyed by her wish to keep her ‘brother’s dead love’ ‘fresh’?
‘she that hath a heart of that fine frame to pay this debt of love but to a brother, how she will love, when the rich golden shaft hath killed the flock of all affections else that live in her’
(if she loves her brother this much, then imagine how much she will love me once cupid’s arrow has killed all of her other emotions)
Where does Viola say Sebastian is in Act 1 Scene 2?
what is the background to this?
‘my brother he is in Elysium’
(Elysium was, in classical mythology, the place at the end of the earth where heroes were carried after their deaths)
=>could foreshadow how Sebastian produces the resolution on his return.
Where does Viola first point to disguise in Act 1 Scene 2?
‘conceal me what I am’
Who enters at the start of Act 1 Scene 3?
Sir Toby Belch and Maria
What does Maria immediately say Sir Toby must do in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘confine yourself with the modest limits of order’
What does Maria say will ‘undo’ Sir Toby Act 1 Scene 3?
‘that quaffing and drinking will undo you’
What does Maria call Sir Andrew in Act 1 Scene 3?
a ‘foolish knight’
‘natural born fool’
‘a great quarreller
‘he’s a very fool and a prodigal’
After Maria exits what does Sir Toby say to Sir Andrew in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘an though let part so, Sir Andrew, would though mightst never draw sword again’
(if andrew lets maria leave like that, he risks losing his social status which allows him to carry a sword, but also references impotency. Toby threatening that Andrew will be emasculated and unable to ‘draw his sword’ for any ladies.)
What does Maria respond to Andrew asking her ‘what’s your metaphor?’
‘it’s dry, sir’
(maria both indicates that her joke was dryly witty and too clever for Andrew, but also that Andrew was impotent; ‘dry’ being a synonym for castrated.)
What does Andrew say about his wit in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit’
What does Andrew wish he’d spent more time doing?
‘I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing and bear-baiting’
(I wish i’d have spent more time learning languages than fencing, dancing and bear-baiting)
Where does Viola first dress up as Cesario?
Act 1 Scene 4