Twelfth Night, Orsino Character and Critic quotes Flashcards
“Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, Of great estate…”
“of fresh and stainless youth, in voices well divulg’d, free, learn’d and valiant… a gracious person; but yet I cannot love him”.
- Olivia Act 1, 5
Critic Quote
“Love was supposed to be an…”
“Exquisite Anguish”
- “The Melancholy Duke Orsino” John W Draper
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“He lists the torments of love and declares them greater. . .”
“than the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition.”
- The Melancholy Duke Orsino - John W Draper
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“For all his fine speeches Orsino’s pain. . .”
“seems rather a weary boredom than a sharp agony”.
- The Melancholy Duke Orsino - John W Draper
Critic Quote
“Orsino is apparently not affecting either Platonic or courtly love. . .”
“he is genuinely ill with a mild case of the actual disease, which is quite properly cured by shifting his affections to Viola.”
- The Melancholy Duke Orsino, John W Draper
“Methought she purg’d the air of pestilence;
That instant was I turned into a hart. . . “
“And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, e’er since persue me.”
- Orsino Act 1, 1
“If thou shalt ever love, in the sweet pangs of it remember me: . . . “
“For I am as all true lovers are,
Unstaid and Skittish in all motions else”.
- Orsino Act 2, Scene 4
“That old and antic song we heard last night. . . “
“Methought it did relieve my passion much.”
- Orsino Act 2, Scene 4
“For, boy, however we do praise ourswelves
Our fancies are . . . “
“more giddy and unfirm, more longing wavering, sooner lost and worn than women’s are”.
- Orsino Act 2, Scene 4
“For women are as roses, whose fair flower . . . “
“Being once displayed doth fall that very hour.”
- Orsino 2, 4
“Now the melancholy God protect thee, and thy tailor make thy doublet of. . . “
“changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal”.
- Feste to Orsino Act 2, Scene 4
“But mine is as all hungry as the sea . . .”
“And can digest much”.
- Orsino Act 2, Scene 4
“I have unclasped to thee. . .”
“To thee the book even of my secret soul”.
-Orsino Act 1, Scene 4
“Be clamorous and . . . “
“leap all civil bounds”.
- Orsino Act 1, Scene 4
“Get thee to yon same sovereign cruely. Tell her my love, more noble than the world…”
“Prizes not quantity of dirty lands.”
- Orsino Act 2, Scene 4
