critical quotes

Question 1

Act 1 Scene 1

Answer 1

*He [Orsino] shares with Hamlet a questing, speculative intelligence. A lonely dreamer with an idealistic cast of mind, his language in the opening scene is artificial but it is also full of vigour and immediacy and shows that he is ‘capable of powerful feeling and, most important, of development under Viola’s influence”

(David Schalkwyk, quoting Roger Warren)

Question 2

Act 1 Scene 2

Question 3

act 1 scene 3

Question 4

act 1 scene 4

Question 5

act 1 scene 5

Question 6

act 1 scene 6