Literature in the Renaissance Period: An Analysis of Twelfth Night (ca. 1601) by William Shakespeare Bibliographic Description Shakespeare, W. (2010). Twelfth Night. Broadview Press. Initial Reaction I enjoyed reading the play Twelfth Night or What You Will by William Shakespeare. Similar to his other works, the tone was cheerful and comedic, with elements of melodrama and suspense. The setting was a mythical kingdom, Illyria, and was based on the drama surrounding a love triangle. The play climaxed
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night Wit, and 't be thy will, put me into good fooling! Those wits that think they have thee do very oft prove fools; and I that am sure I lack thee may pass for a wise man. For what says Quinapalus? 'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. ' Shakespeare 's plays were written to be performed to an audience from different social classes and of varying levels of intellect. Thus they contain down-to-earth characters who appeal to the working classes, side-by-side with complexities
He uses polysemic pun extensively in his plays and poetry to heighten dramatic effect, to comment ironically, to create wit, and to link situations, thoughts and feelings. In this dialogue, taken from Twelfth Night, Shakespeare uses the word live as polysemic pun. The word live in each line has different meaning. In first line the word live means like music, while in the second line the word live means having faith in the church, and in the third line the
sixteen hundreds, have long been the subject of academic debates and analysis. Potent with double entendres, metaphors, and social commentary, it is easy to apply queer theory to Shakespeare’s plays, notably Twelfth Night, written in 1601. Though Twelfth Night’s ending pushes its characters into traditional heterosexual romances and binary gender roles to satisfy the genre and placate conservative Elizabethan audiences, the characters in the comedy defy tradition by exploring homosexual love and expression
group, act four is important, and act five is peak of Iago 's villainy. All of these groups did an exceptional work but Act IV did the most thorough analysis and made the important connections that other groups lacked. Nevertheless, these presentations provided me a general idea of what to search for and include in my close reading notes for Twelfth Night. My knowledge of the play started with act three. This group presented did not only specific themes and ideas of the act; they also showed how these
through the story of Hayavadana. The play provides complex seeing by use of a multi-level organization of communication between characters—chorus, talking dolls, Goddess Kali, an objective Bhagavata—which help in the playwright’s purpose in providing a contemporary idiom in an otherwise folk play. The play is feminist in the sense that the woman succeeds in getting the man of her choice—with brain and brawn—and is even capable of deciding the future of her child. The induction of
A pivotal element in John Donne’s “Elegy 16” is his use of the page-disguise motif. By carefully reading the elegy in terms of the technical aspects and implications of Donne’s conception of disguise, it is argued that its non-normative translucence chiefly rests on his own personal politics of power and certainty. Therefore, the resultant realistic deviation, paradigmatic quality in his poetry when bringing into final artisticshape his vast array of experiential raw material. “Elegy
In Shakespeare 's dramas, as long as the topics related to love and marriage, especially comedy, to reflect humanism, it is bound to create some images of heroes and heroines who are not afraid of secular obstacles, so that the feminist ideology will inevitably penetrate. Although feminist literature has not been really developed in this period, the earliest origin has a deep influence on the development of later feminist literature. At the beginning of the Renaissance, any ideological emancipation
of a social classes, often represented by stereotypical stock characters. This study is to identify the similarities and differences between comedy of manners in English and in Vietnamese.
Reading Christian symbols is reading Christianity itself. There are various types of symbols which the Christian tradition proudly preserves. For our clarity we have marked two vast categories of symbols. Symbols of Christian religion and Symbols of Christian Theology. Symbols of Christian religion are symbols that are ritualistic, cultic, liturgical and literal. Symbols of Christian theology are deeper, metaphorical and symbolic in teaching the faith of Christianity from the ideological point of