Critical anthology quotes/ paraphrasing

Question 1

1. Deception and disguise - Laroque

Answer 1

happiness is created, once they escape the gender identity crisis.

Question 2

2. deception and disguise - Laroque

Answer 2

one cannot do away with the basic discrepancy between ritual and reality

Question 3

1. Love and desire - hollander

Answer 3

The nature of a revel is disclosed in the first scene.

Question 4

2. love and desire - hollander

Answer 4

The movement of the whole play is that of a party

Question 5

love and desire - John Brown

Answer 5

Orsino’s sense of betrayal arises more from the loss of Cesario than from the loss of Olivia

Question 6

Love and desire - Shapiro

Answer 6

Orsino’s final attitude more relief than disappointment about her gender.

Question 7

1. Class - Maslen

Answer 7

Comedy was the dramatic form that dealt with commoners

Question 8

2. Class - Maslen

Answer 8

Comedy, dealt with the dangerous present,

Question 9

Class - Horace

Answer 9

comedy has changed because of pressure from outraged governments,

Question 10

1. Comic atmosphere - Laroque

Answer 10

he chose festivity rather than the city comical satire advocated by his rival Ben Jonson

Question 11

2. Comic atmosphere - Laroque

Answer 11

Shakespeare’s festive comedies revel in a carnival spirit of liberty and irreverence.

Question 12

3. Comic atmosphere - Laroque

Answer 12

Shakespeare stood in the defense of “old holiday pastimes,”

Question 13

4. Comic atmosphere - Laroque

Answer 13

Songs, music, and lyrics are particularly important in Shakespeare’s festive comedies.

Question 14

comic atmosphere - Edwards

Answer 14

the festive comedies do not really end in clarification and in a resolution of the contrary forces of holiday and everyday:

Question 15

Comic atmosphere - Kerr

Answer 15

Comedy will speak of nothing but limitation

Question 16

1. Comic atmosphere - Bevington

Answer 16

Feste’s songs celebrate the notion of seizing the moment of pleasure while one is still young

Question 17

2. Comic atmosphere - Bevington

Answer 17

Twelfth Night comes close to being militant in its defence of merrymaking.

Question 18

Comic atmosphere - Hollander

Answer 18

Full of games, revels and tricks, and disguises, it is an Epiphany play, a ritualized Twelfth Night festivity in itself,

Question 19

1. Marriage - Hopkins

Answer 19

Shakespearean comedy is its pervading obsession with marriage.

Question 20

2. Marriage - Hopkins

Answer 20

marriage is so central a topic in Shakespearean comedy

Question 21

3. Marriage - Hopkins

Answer 21

despite the traditional view that marriage provides comic closure, this is, in fact, very rarely achieved.

Question 22

4. Marriage - Hopkins

Answer 22

Marriage is appropriate as a provider of closure for comedy because it focuses primarily on the experience of the group

Question 23

5. Marriage - Hopkins

Answer 23

Marriage is the expected ending towards which Shakespearean comedy seems to tend, yet at the same time Shakespeare frequently disrupts this expectation.

Question 24

6. Marriage - Hopkins

Answer 24

in comedy the world not only remains fundamentally the same, but is reinforced by social and patriarchal order

Question 25

7. Marriage - Hopkins

Answer 25

They sanction sexual desire to be crowned and licensed by marriage

Question 26

Marriage - Laroque

Answer 26

happiness is create once the young lovers leave the labyrinth of errors

Question 27

Marriage - Bevington

Answer 27

by the fact that Malvolio is drawn into a ‘crime’ of social aspiration, Malvolio brings his downfall on himself

Question 28

Malvolio - Laroque

Answer 28

Shakespeare’s subplots t of cruel games of deception – between Sir Toby, Feste, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night – insist on dissonance or on men who have no music in them.

Question 29

1. Malvolio - Bevington

Answer 29

The very unbelievability of Malvolio’s infatuation is part of what makes it so richly enjoyable

Question 30

2. Malvolio - Bevington

Answer 30

Secretly he longs for the pleasures of this world and for the authority to control others, both of which can be best attained by his becoming ‘Count Malvolio’

Question 31

3. Malvolio - Bevington

Answer 31

– because he is an enemy of merriment and hence a foe of the kind of theatre that Twelfth Night represents. Malvolio believes in sobriety.

Question 32

4. Malvolio - Bevington

Answer 32

He fantasizes about sharing Olivia’s daybed and, about putting Toby and Andrew in their place.

Question 33

5. Malvolio - Bevington

Answer 33

Puritanism was an issue around 1600–2. Some reformers were vociferous in their opposition to the theatre,

Question 34

Malvolio - Hollander

Answer 34

one personage in the play who remains in a melancholy humor is the one person who is outside the revels and cannot be affected by them.

Question 35

1. Feste - Bevington

Answer 35

Feste, as Malvolio’s nemesis and opposite number, is the apostle of merriment.

Question 36

2. Feste - Bevington

Answer 36

Feste’s songs celebrate the notion of seizing the moment of pleasure while one is still young

Question 37

1. Gender and Orsino - Shapiro

Answer 37

maleness generated emotional crosscurrents counter to the play’s drive toward heterosexual union.

Question 38

2. Gender - Shapiro

Answer 38

in the world of the playhouse when heterosexual intimacy is portrayed by an all-male company, calls attention gender identity and keeps spectators alert to all of the layers involved.