Twelfth night critics

Question 1

Tonkin: “It rejects the stale conventions of

Answer 1

Stylised love”

Question 2

Tonkin: “In Shakespeare, great love is

Answer 2

Conveyed through great poetry”

Question 3

Tonkin: “Orsino is a

Answer 3

‘petrachian lover’”

Question 4

Tonkin: The frustration of a love

Answer 4

Turned in on itself”

Question 5

Tonkin: Refusal to leave behind the love of brothers

Answer 5

And embrace the sexual love”

Question 6

Penny Gay: “contrast of romance and

Answer 6

social realism” subplot and plot

Question 7

one main theme: Penny Gay:

Answer 7

“suddeness and unexpectedness of love”

Question 8

Penny Gay: “Falseness of Orsino’s love

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Compounded by the real love viola feels for her brother”

Question 9

Penny Gay “female passion

Answer 9

in male convention”

Question 10

Penny Gay: “talk as no dramatic heroine

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has talked before”

Question 11

Erasmus: “Fools are the only

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ones who speak frankly and tell the truth”

Question 12

Thomas Mann: “A shift of lighting

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suffices to convert one into another”

Question 13

Keir Elamn: “Viola’s disguise is

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a gesture of self-effacement”

Question 14

Rex Gibson: “Malvolio is no longer seen

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as a figure of fun who fully deserves cruel humiliation”

Question 15

Samuel Johnson:

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“Truly comic”

Question 16

Charlton 1938: “Malvolio has lost the art and the springs of

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Sympathy are dried up for him”