Drama: Twelfth Night AO5

Question 1

thomas

Answer 1

gender as a “performed role”

Question 2

bickley

Answer 2

disguise as “part of the play’s carnivalesque confusion”

Question 3

shapiro

Answer 3

viola’s maleness is a “counter to the play’s drive towards heterosexual union”

Question 4

kerr

Answer 4

“comedy will speak of nothing but limitation”

Question 5

cyperski

Answer 5

music gives “freedom to challenge society’s accepted norms of true love”

Question 6

bevington

Answer 6

“malvolio is drawn to the crime of social aspiration” and he is a “target for satire”, “battle between carnival and lent”

Question 7

wilbern

Answer 7

malvolio leaves an “unresolved conclusion to the play”

Question 8

hopkins

Answer 8

marriage for “comic closure” even tho ss “habitually disrupts” this goal

Question 9

maslen

Answer 9

comedy gives lower social orders a voice that is “challenging and subversive”

Question 10

hollander

Answer 10

play gives a “representation of feasting”

Question 11

laroque

Answer 11

music emphasises revelry and helps “restore harmony”

Question 12

gay

Answer 12

“comedy… is ultimately conservative”