Twelfth night critics Flashcards
a really (naive) positive view of the whole thing
Hazlitt
‘sweetness and pleasantry’
the different sides/ forces in the play
Richard Wilson
‘dialectic between Carnival and Lent, Catholic and Protestant, or secrecy and disclosure’
view on what it does to the audience
Ralph Berry
‘the ultimate effect of Twelfth night is to make the audience ashamed of itself’
view on the role of the spectator
Kier Elam
spectator = ‘co-protagonist’
Negative view of Malvolio
Harry Levin
well deserves to be put back in his place
positive view of Malvolio
Charles Lamb
a sort of greatness seems never to desert him
historian on effects on the class system
Keith Wrightson
‘social divisions blurred’
on what the punishment of M reflects
Kier Elam
the anxieties and uncertainties of its historical moment
