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why, he has three thousand ducats a year!”
ACT 1 SCENE 3
(class)
“By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o’ nights. Your cousin, my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours.”
ACT 1 SCENE 3
(Masters and servants0
‘what is porqui’
ACT 1 SCENE 3
-comic relief, underscores difference between sir toby and andrew in terms of class. points to andrew as an underlying fool in the play for others to parody and provide comic relief.
(comedy)
He does obey every point of the letter
that I dropped to betray him. He does smile his face
into more lines than is in the new map with the
augmentation of the Indies.
ACT 3 SCENE 2
-malvolio shows his indlugence in excess for social mobility, abandoning puritanical order. Symbolic of the lack of order in illiriya and the rising merchant class in elizabethan society wanting social mobility.
(Class) (Excess)
If music be the food of love, play on. / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die.”
ACT 1 SCENE 1
-the first of Orsino’s many soliloquey’s, portray’s orsino’s love as performative and excessive. Recalls courtly love and petrachan sonnets.
(excess) (love)
O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame / To pay this debt of love but to a brother, / How will she love when the rich golden shaft / Hath killed the flock of all affections else / That live in her; when liver, brain, and heart, / These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and filled / Her sweet perfections with one self king!”
ACT 1 SCENE 1
*“Away before me to sweet beds of flowers! / Love thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.”
Act 1 scene 1
spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, / That, notwithstanding thy capacity / Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there, / Of what validity and pitch soe’er, / But falls into abatement and low price / Even in a minute.
Act 1 scene 1
“What a plague means my niece to take the death of her brother thus? I am sure care’s an enemy to life.”
Act 1, scene 3
(comedy) (melancholy) (festivity)
“Confine? I’ll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be these boots too. An they be not, let them hang themselves in their own straps!”
act 1 scene 3
(sir toby) (festivity)
“With drinking healths to my niece. I’ll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in Illyria.”
act 1 scene 3
(excess) (Indulgence)
Go, write it in a martial hand. Be curst and
brief. It is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent
and full of invention. Taunt him with the license of
ink. If thou “thou”-est him some thrice, it shall not
be amiss, and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of
paper, although the sheet were big enough for the
bed of Ware in England, set ’em down. Go, about it.
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou
write with a goose-pen, no matter. About it.
ACT 3 SCENE 2
Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One
draught above heat makes him a fool, the second
mads him, and a third drowns him.
act 1 scene 5
“Bless you, fair shrew.”
act 1 scene 3
Let him approach. Call in my gentlewoman.
act 1 scene 5
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid / For such disguise as haply shall become / The form of my intent. I’ll serve this duke. / Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him.”
act 1 scene 2
- “That strain again! It had a dying fall. / O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound / That breathes upon a bank of violets, / Stealing and giving odor.”
ACT 1 SCENE 1
, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste
with a distempered appetite. To be generous, guiltless,
and of free disposition is to take those things
for bird-bolts that you deem cannon bullets. There
is no slander in an allowed Fool, though he do
nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet
man, though he do nothing but reprove.
act 1 scene 5
“By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o’ nights. Your cousin, my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours.”
Act 1 scene 3
“Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.”
act 1 scene 3
