Sir Toby Flashcards
(22 cards)
What does Sir Toby say about care? (Act 1 scene 3)
- “Care’s an enemy to life”
What does he say about drinking? (Act 1 scene 3)
- “I’ll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in Illyria”
What does Sir Toby say about Sir Andrew’s financial position? (Act 1 scene 3)
- “he has three thousand ducats a year”
What are two examples of Sir Toby using bawdy humour in Act 1 scene 3?
- “never draw sword again”
- “I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off”
How does Sir Toby subvert time in this scene? (Act 2 scene 3)
- “To be up after midnight and to go to bed then, is early”
How does Sir Toby speak to Maria in a disrespectful way? (Act 2 scene 3)
- “Marian, I say! A stoop of wine!”
What does Sir Toby suggest to Sir Andrew suggest that makes him appear to be the Lord of Misrule? (Act 2 scene 3)
- I’ll write thee a challenge”
What are two affectionate names Sir Toby refers to Maria as? (Act 2 scene 3)
- “She’s a beagle, true-bred”
- “Penthesilea” (queen of the amazon)
What rude comment does Sir Toby make to Malvolio? (Act 2 scene 3)
- “Art any more than a steward?”
What ominous line of the song does Toby Belch sing? (Act 2 scene 3)
- “But I will never die”
- This was a genuinely popular song in the Elizabethan era called ‘O Mistress Mine’, did Shakespeare purposefully give Sir Toby that line?
What does Sir Toby Belch do regarding Sir Andrew and Cesario’s duel that makes him appear the Lord of Misrule? (Act 2 scene 3)
- “I’ll deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth”
What two ominous comment does Sir Toby say about Malvolio in Act 2 scene 5?
- “we will fool him black and blue”
- “pistol him, pistol him”
What two foreshadowing comments does Sir Toby make to Maria? (Act 2 scene 5)
- “I could marry this wench for this device”
- “thou most excellent devil of wit”
In what way does Sir Toby encourage Sir Andrew to write a letter to Cesario? (Act 3 Scene 3)
- “Let there be gall in thy ink”
How much money of Sir Andrew’s has Sir Toby spent? (Act 3 scene 2)
- “Some two thousand strong” (would be about £50,000 today)
What does Sir Toby say they should do to Malvolio (Act 3 scene 4)
- “dark room and bound”
What does Sir Toby say performatively to Malvolio when they are pretending he is insane? (Act 3 scene 4)
- “We must deal gently with him”
How does Sir Toby describe Viola to Sir Andrew and Sir Andrew to Viola? (Act 3 scene 4)
- A to V “skilful and deadly”
- V to A “he’s a very devil”
What does Sir Toby say that shows a slight bit of responsibility/precaution? (Act 4 scene 2)
- “I am now so far in offence with my niece”
- “I cannot pursue with any safety this sport”
What hypocritical comment does Sir Toby make in Act 5 scene 1?
- “I hate a drunken rogue”
What is Sir Toby’s final line that present him as a comic villain? (Act 5 Scene 1)
- “An ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave, a thin faced knave, a gull!”
What does Sir Toby do to Sebastian? (act 4 scene 2)
- “(seizing Sebastian)
