LAST MIN STUFF Flashcards
Rabkin quote marriage
The Duchess’ marriage to Antonio is ‘wilful and irresponsible’
Tolliver quote marriage
‘January shops for his bride’
Wedlock is
So esy and so clene
These words should be mine
And all the parts you have spoke
Hart quote deception
‘Bosola is a twisted misanthrope and cut throat’
Tolliver quote deception
‘January is blinded by the deception of his wife’
In warm wex hath
Emprented the clicket
Now for this act
I am certain to be rais’d
Bradbrook quote religion
‘The cardinal knows already that he is in hell’
Thorne quote religion
‘January’s bending of religious authority leaves religion untouched but adds to our sense of his delusion and error’
Holy
Boond
Pull and pull strongly
For your able strength must pull down heaven upon me
Whigham quote lust
‘Ferdinand’s incestuous inclination’
Pearsall quote lust
‘The tale reduces all human behaviour to lust and greed’
In he
Throng
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust
Marxism for antonio
It is due to Antonio’s lower status that he has less influence
Haskell quote class
Life for women of the gentry was synonymous with marriage
Gentil
Squire
Ambition, madam
Is a great man’s madness
Jonathan bate
Viola redeems the play because she proves to be selfless not selfish
Stephen greenblatt
Viola’s disguise has not only created sexual confusion, but Elizabethan conservatism is being challenged as well
I’ll do my best to woo your lady
Oh what a barfil strife for whoever I woo myself would be his wife
Joseph summers
Orsino is bound by his own mask of love, the mask is a distorted sense of love and is fed by boredom, lack of physical love, and excessive imagination
Northrop frye
Both Orsino and Olivia are out of touch with emotion, moving around in sorrows, longing for something that they can never have
Humphrey Tonkin
Duke Orsino is a true Petrarchan lover
Film version twelfth night
1996 director Trevor nunn
DOM Globe production dir dromgoole
Ferdinand is mad and there’s a more playful tone
Film we watched DOM stage on screen dir Freestone
Antonio is pathetic and jumps away after kissing the Duchess
David Lewis
For both Orsino and Olivia, self deception serves as an avoidance of the real world and of real emotion
Howard
Olivia, with her social and financial independence is a much bigger threat to the heirarchal gender system than Viola is
2018 RSC DOM production
The cardinal assaults Julia
2017 RSC twelfth night production
Contrast in Olivia’s household with orsino’s court
Hunworth
The filling of malvolio is the comic highlight if not the centre of the play
Warham
Malvolio’s complete belief in Maria’s letter provides a wonderful spectacle for the audience
Lamb
Malvolio is misunderstood
Robert Weizmann
Although the carnivalesque ceremonies were gradually discontinued, their spirit survived in the Elizabethan clown
Harold bloom
Everyone except the reluctant jester, Feste, is essentially mad without knowing it
Penny gay
Sir Toby is the Lord of Misrule
Epstein
The clowning scenes give spectators a chance to catch their breath and mentally prepare themselves for what follows
Bruce r Smith
Gender is more like a suit of clothes that can be taken on and off at will
Valerie traub
It is as an object of another woman’s desire that Cesario finds own erotic voice
Michael Bristol
Central to the experience of carnival is a particular use of symbols, costumes, and masks
2002 globe production twelfth night
All the actors were male
2001 dir Lindsay posner
Antonio and Sebastian are seen getting dressed next to an unmade bed
