quotes Flashcards
(17 cards)
“I do not now fool myself… My lady loves me”
early = funny, dramatic irony (audience watching them, watching M)
modern = pity esp. with performance adaptation i.e. Adrian Edmonson
“To bed? Ay sweetheart, and i’ll come to thee”
brawdy humour
confusion
Nigel Hawthorne = predatory/scary
“Diana’s lips is not more smooth and rubious”
even as Cesario, Viola’s femininity is emphasised
allusion to diana, goddess of chastity
“An apple cleft in two is no more twin than these two”
seb and viola are interchangeable = harmony in play
quote = each person is 1/2 of one soul
“very midsummer madness”
used to describe Malvolio
“He is most notoriously abused”
Olivia’s perception changes
“Cesario come”
Queer theory = Homoerotic feelings left unresolved
“The rain it raineth”
Feste’s macabre song
MEMENTO MORI
- remember that you die (popular in middle ages to renaissance
“What country friends is this?”
demanding
“If music be the food of love, play on”
opens in a conditional statement = Orsino is unsure of what love is but he believes to be knowledgeable
metaphor = food is love -> a necessity
“if you will not murder me for your love, let me be your servant”
allusion to PETRARCHAN CONCEIT
Petrarchs poetry = trope of cruel mistress who kills loving servant after she rejects him
disguise I see thou art a wickedness
better a witty fool, than a foolish wit
She sat like patience on a monument, smiling at grief
To be count Malvolio!
malvolio degrades Olivia into an object for his desires
I am not what I am
Nothing that is so is so
feste
