twelfth night Critics

Question 1

Miranda Fey

Answer 1

Twelfth Night portrays gender as essentially a role to play

Question 2

Emma Smith

Answer 2

Feste “his Role is to point out the truths other characters don’t want to hear”

Question 3

Bloom

Answer 3

“everyone except Feste, the reluctant jester, is essentially mad without knowing it

Question 4

Summers

Answer 4

‘every character has his masks, for the assumption of the play is that no character is without a mask in the seriocomic business of the pursuit of happiness

Question 5

Lindheim

Answer 5

Maria ‘succumbs to the lack of limit and control that she earlier censured in Sir Toby’s rivalry”

Question 6

Bevington

Answer 6

Malvolio is a hypocrite, secretly he longs for the pleasure of this world and the authority to control others

Question 7

Bates

Answer 7

Viola redeems the play because she proves to be selfless, not selfish in love. She becomes echo instead of Narcissus

Question 8

Bergson

Answer 8

‘Shakespeare presents Illyria’s society as emotionless and unsympathetic’

Question 9

Emma Smith

Answer 9

Shakespeares “comedies reveal themselves as socially conservative, reinforcing hierarchies and boundaries”

Question 10

Pequiney

Answer 10

Sebastian could never have done what was necessary to win Olivia, and his only chance was of his sister to perform this masculine role for him

Question 11

Barber

Answer 11

Sebastian could never have done what was necessary to win Olivia’s love but seeks instead the social status he will gain from it’

Question 12

Orel

Answer 12

Sebastian and Antonio are “the only overtly homosexual in Shakespeare”

Question 13

Kott

Answer 13

With all its appearance of gaiety, it is a very bitter comedy about the Elizabethan dolce vita

Question 14

2001 Posner Production

Answer 14

Antonio and Sebastian wake up in an unmade bed together

Question 15

1884

Answer 15

Henry Irving made Malvolio tragic rather than comedic so his desruction became sad

Question 16

1865 Olympic production

Answer 16

Kate Terry played Viola and Sebastian

Question 17

Hogdon

Answer 17

On the early modern stage, clothed made the man - and woman

Question 18

Hogdon

Answer 18

‘picking up the sword confirms Cesario’s manhood, but her inability to use it ‘proves’ her femininity”

Question 19

Batkin

Answer 19

Carnivalesque “they live in it; an everyone participates because its very idea embraces all the people”

Question 20

Carol Thomas Needy

Answer 20

Malvolio serves as a scapegoat who is punished for the flaws others share

Question 21

Lewis

Answer 21

for both Orsino and Olivia self-deception serves as an avoidance of the real world and of real emotion.

Question 22

Lewis

Answer 22

all the characters are engaged either in deceiving themselves or in deliberately or accidentally deceiving others

Question 23

Wanamaker

Answer 23

viola is the catalyst of the play

Question 24

Barber

Answer 24

“The energy usually occupied in maintaining inhibition is freed for celebration”

Question 25

Christopher Luscombe 2017

Answer 25

twins are washed up in Victorian England from colonial India - ideas of race/caste/status emphasised by Malvolio sings

Question 26

Kiernan Ryan

Answer 26

“The raucous conduct of the tipsy triumvirate violates the fundamental principles on which the decorum of everyday social life depends