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Title: Twelth Night Analysis
Description: analysis of social and political context for the play. how characters were established in Act 1 and how it is different from the films produced. how the themes were established in Act 1. analysis of the imagery of Viola's speech how wisdom and folly is developed in Act 3. how false appearances are portrayed in Act 3 how the plot is resolved.
Description: analysis of social and political context for the play. how characters were established in Act 1 and how it is different from the films produced. how the themes were established in Act 1. analysis of the imagery of Viola's speech how wisdom and folly is developed in Act 3. how false appearances are portrayed in Act 3 how the plot is resolved.
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Twelfth Night
Date: 19/01/2016
Social/Political Context:
Elizabethan Court Life:
➔ Need to show:
◆ Knowledge and understanding on TN and its context
◆ Appreciation of the context discussed
◆ Use of strategies to engage the audience
◆ Coherent structure
◆ Wide vocabulary and inclusion of literary terminology
Elizabethan Court Life:
➔ Court was wherever the Queen happened to be and was made up of all those
who surrounded the Queen from servants to the courtiers themselves
...
➔ The palaces were, in many ways, an architectural embodiment of the monarch
...
◆ Compared to the conditions of medieval royal castles, the palaces were
luxurious
...
◆ Long, high, windows let sunlight seep in and ceilings were intricately
decorated with plaster
...
➔ Most political and cultural activity was centred on the court of Queen Elizabeth
...
2
◆ MPs were unpaid
...
◆ The patrons would typically be aristocrats, who would frequent the court
...
But
there was a courtly ideal, to which they needed to conform
...
➔ The Elizabethans frequently held up one man as their ideal, Sir Philip Sidney, a
talented poet
...
➔ There were many famous Elizabethan Courtiers who graced the court of Queen
Elizabeth I
...
◆ Elizabethan courtiers were well versed in courtly manners and dressed
in expensive Elizabethan Clothing which not only represented their
wealth but also their status and position in the Elizabethan court
...
Date: 25/01/2016
How does Act one of twelfth night
establish the characters and themes of
the play?
Scene 1&2
Themes:
➔ Cross dressing
...
➔ Shipwreck
...
◆ Orsino, Olivia, Viola/Cesario
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➔ Malvolio subplot
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◆ “If music be the food of love, lay on”
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Whiny, pompous, melodramatic
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◆ Uses language that is overly complex
...
Over the top
...
◆ Using mythic language to describe himself
...
Uses bad metaphors
◆ Says she smells so beautiful that she gets rid of pestilence
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◆ Olivia is not going to think to highly of him as she will remember the bad
things-pestilence
...
◆ Lazy
...
◆ Prancing around the stage complaining about love
...
● Sets up the scene for comedy
Title: Twelth Night Analysis
Description: analysis of social and political context for the play. how characters were established in Act 1 and how it is different from the films produced. how the themes were established in Act 1. analysis of the imagery of Viola's speech how wisdom and folly is developed in Act 3. how false appearances are portrayed in Act 3 how the plot is resolved.
Description: analysis of social and political context for the play. how characters were established in Act 1 and how it is different from the films produced. how the themes were established in Act 1. analysis of the imagery of Viola's speech how wisdom and folly is developed in Act 3. how false appearances are portrayed in Act 3 how the plot is resolved.