critics

Question 1

Samuel Johnson - early critic

Answer 1

“truly comic!”

Question 2

William Hazlit - early critic

Answer 2

William Hazlit - early critic “full of sweetness and pleasantry!”

Question 3

Rex Gibson

Answer 3

“the perception of 12th night is no longer that of a romantic comedy, but of a much more complex, painful drama”

Question 4

Bickley

Answer 4

viola “negotiates both female and male roles”

Question 5

Davies

Answer 5

“male friendship is too weak a term for this absolute bonding of 2 young men”

Question 6

Jenkins

Answer 6

” a ruling class ideology operates within the play”

Question 7

Tamsin Grieg

Answer 7

“The darkness within is my own creation because I’ve agreed to be ignorant of reality”
= on her interpretation of MalvoliA’s character

Question 8

Rex Gibson

Answer 8

“Viola’s quick-wittedness and liveliness” subverts “negative stereotypes of women as weak, and submissive”

Question 9

RW Maslen

Answer 9

Viola “Invokes the idea of the chaste and silent woman after she has disguised herself as a boy”
(patience on a monument speech)

Question 10

RW Maslen

Answer 10

“concealment is ubiquitous”
integral to plot:
Olivias veil
Marias handwriting

Question 11

RW Maslen

Answer 11

“for women disguise is an escape from powerlessness”

Question 12

Dympna Callaghan

Answer 12

“ending of twelfth night is not a happy ending”
heteronormative marriage = happy ending

Question 13

Bakhtin (radical)

Answer 13

The carnival is not just a creation of chaos that subverts social order to release social tension but a transformative force

Question 14

CL Barber (conservative)

Answer 14

“social order is reinforced and resumed at the end of the play”