Drama: Twelfth Night AO3

Question 1

manningham’s review

Answer 1

• earliest reference to tn, diary of law student
• candle lit hall = themes of darkness and illumination

Question 2

queen elizabeth I

Answer 2

• powerful female figure as virgin queen
• close male friends including rulers of europe
• never got married to protect her kingdom

Question 3

social class

Answer 3

• nobility at the top
• born into or appointed by monarch
• social class set by god
• marriage could improve social class but not welcomes bc it may lead to loss of status

Question 4

sumptuary laws

Answer 4

• laws that dictated colors of fabrics people wore based on social class
• proclamation against excessive apparel aimed to regulate extravagant spending on clothes and prevented people from wearing above their station

Question 5

male friendship

Answer 5

renaissance promoted strong male bonds

Question 6

puritans

Answer 6

• strict protestants
• represented restraint
• disapproved of theatre bc it was a distraction from god

Question 7

cross-dressing

Answer 7

female performers banned from english stage

Question 8

twelfth night as a celebration

Answer 8

• 6/01 = climax of festive season
• lord of misrule for the night
• social hierarchy temporarily re-arranged
• tn written to be performed on this night
• merrymaking + cross dressing

Question 9

alternate title

Answer 9

• what u will nods to a freedom of agency in identity and sexual orientation
  OR
• giving what the people want (escapism thru theatre)

Question 10

last comedy

Answer 10

shakespeare’s last romantic comedy before he moved onto tragedies = darker interpretations of madness and love

Question 11

illyria

Answer 11

• green world to escape society’s trappings where problems are magically solved
• sound evokes “elysium” - abode of the happy dead in greek myth

Question 12

comedy as genre

Answer 12

• harmony, chaos+confusion, restoration, resolution
• audience knows there is a natural order to return to from delightful temporary disorder

Question 13

origins of love (plato)

Answer 13

• humans originally 2 joined creatures but we grew overconfident so Zeus punished us by splitting us down the middle
• each half plagued by loneliness which can only be fixed by finding the other half (hetero and homo)