ALL CRITICAL QUOTATIONS (FINAL) Flashcards
(58 cards)
Cash- malvolio as a killjoy
‘he is a kill joy’
(Malvolio) (puritanicalism)
marias trick exploiting malvolios self love (Bevington)
Maria’s trick exploits Malvolio’s infatuation with himself (David Bevington)
comedic effect of malvolios slow realisation when reading the letter (Hollander)
‘The riddling verse of the letter slows Malvolio down to a ludicrous deliberateness, a tortoise-like advance upon its meaning.’ (John Hollander)
Bevington- malvolio as a target for satire
‘Malvolio is a well suited traget for satire’
(Malvolio) (Comedy)
Barber- malvolio as a foreign body
Malvolio ‘Is a kind of foreign body to be expelled by laughter’
(Malvolio) (Comedy) (outsiders)
Crane- the baiting of malvolio
‘The baiting of Malvolio is unrelieved in its comic heartlessness’
(Comedy) (Malvolio)
Barber- Malvolio reflecting the rising merchant class
‘Malvolio and Shylock are representative of the rising of capitalism’
(Social class) (Malvolio)
Cash- Pity for malvolio
‘Malvolio… becomes the one figure in the play for whom we may feel geuine pity’
(Malvolio) (Comedy’
Levin- malvolio capability of love
‘While it is perfectly true that Malvolio’s own desire for Olivia is inextricably caught up with his own ambition, he is as, or more, capable of love as any character illiriya’
(Social class) (malvolio) (love)
Barber- malvolio representing the puritan spirit
Malvolio is ‘a satirical portrait of the Puritan spirit’ and ‘he is like a Puritan because he is hostile to holiday.’
(malvolio) (puritans)
lamb- malvolios accidental comedy
‘he becomes comic but by accident’
(comedy) (malvolio)
Barber- malvolio wanting to rise social class
‘he is or would like to be a rising man, and to rise he uses sobriety and morality.’
Smith: The play suggests gender…
“is more like a suit of clothes that can be put on and taken off at a will than a matter of biological destiny.”
David Schalkwyk- viola’s disguise not concealing her femininity
‘Despite Viola’s disguise, the feminine elements in her body dominate’
disguise: Cross-dressing as entertainment and subversion Barber (barber)
‘festive pleasure in transvestism is expressed.’ (Ros Barber)
David Schalkwyk - Cesario is a mix of identity between Vola and Sebastian
“Cesario is a point of converging identity between Viola and Sebastian”
C.L Barber - difference between men and women
‘The most fundamental distinction the play brings home to us is the difference between men and women’
olivia challenging gender roles (Elam)
Olivia “is the real threat to the hierarchical gender system”
Gender Roles: Viola’s ability to shift between genders shows both contrast and connection between them
‘The effect of moving back and forth from woman to sprightly page is to convey how much the sexes differ yet how much they both have in common, how everyone who is fully alive has qualities of both.’ (Ros Barber)
Gender Roles: Viola as an object of desire Schalkwyk
‘Viola becomes an erotic ‘blank’, sexually disempowered but also a screen upon which others project their own desires.’ (David Schalkwyk)
Gender Roles: Viola’s disguised love through speeches on orsino’s behalf
CRAIK
‘Viola’s speeches on Orsino’s behalf carry all the force of her own love for him. ‘ (Craik)
Mcdonald- comedy and order
“Comedy moves from confusion to order, from ignorance to understanding, from law to liberty.
(comedy)
Laroque- festive comedy
“Shakespeare’s festive comedies revel in a carnival spirit of liberty
(festivity) (comedy)
Maslen- tragedy dealing with the past and comedy with the present
“Tragedy dealt with times that were safely past… Comedy, by contrast, dealt with the dangerous present.”
(links to fears of spreading puritanism?)
(comedy) (puritanism)
