Twelfth Night -- Critics and Productions Flashcards
Gibson
“Topsy turvy world of masquerades and confusion”
David Lewis
“For Orsino and Olivia self deception serves as an avoidance of the real world and of real emotion”
Agape meaning
Agape is a Greco-Christian term referring to love, “the highest form of love, charity” and “the love of God for man and of man for God”.
Phileo meaning
Friendship and brotherly love
Storge meaning
familial love refers to natural or instinctual affection, such as the love of a parent towards offspring and vice versa”
Eros meaning
Romantic and passionate love
Charles Spencer
“Twelfth Night is the darkest and most haunting of Shakespeare’s great comedies, its humour constantly shadowed by cruelty and a keen awareness of mortality”
John Mullan
The all male cast “becomes a kind of artistic freedom, enabling the characters to switch their sexual identity”
Miranda Fay
“Twelfth Night depicts one’s gender as essentially a performed role”
Casey
“dramatic critique of the ideal norm of imperative homosexuality”
Production set in victorian england
RSC 2018 (colours, comedy, homosexuality, race/social standing)
Nicole Smith
“There is a sense of hopelessness in the battle between what one says and what is truth”
Summers
‘Orsino is bound by his own mask of love’
Pequigney
‘It is the classic homoerotic relationship’ (seb and Ant)
Harold Bloom
“An abyss hovers just beyond Twelfth Night, and one cost of not leaping into it is that everyone, except the reluctant jester, Feste, is essentially mad without knowing it.”
