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The messenger tells Leonato someone will be arriving in Messina. Who is coming? Don Pedro and his soldiers (benedick and Claudio) Beatrice questions the messenger about someone. Who? Benedick Describe Beatrice’s greeting to Benedick upon his arrival rude and hurtful…

Speaker: “My liege, your Highness now may do me good.”Audience: “My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how,And thou shalt see how apt it is to learnAny hard lesson that may do thee good.” Speaker: ClaudioAudience: Don PedroSituation:…

Terry Eagleton – love Characters in love are “simultaneously at their most real and unreal John Kott – Passion Passion is one; it just has different faces David Jones – love Orsino imagines that he is in love with Olivia…

Abhor To regard with horror or loathing; to hate deeply. Caterwauling A shrill, discordant sound. Churlish Lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude. Cloyment Satiety; fullness. Cudgel A club that is used…

I am sure care’s an enemy to life -Act 1 scene 3-first line-talking about Olivia’s grief; establishes him as selfish character (or caring? we don’t know him yet, he could be looking out for her); if something disrupts his revelry…

Pretty nearly everybody in it but Viola and Sebastian… is at the extreme point where from excess of something or other he is about to be converted into something else. Goddard, 1951 on extreme and excess Every character has his…

In the play,”The Twelth Night,” by Shakespeare, the character,Viola, expressed a peculiar reaction towards the unfortunate death of her brother. During the play, as Viola is communicating to the sailors, she states,”And what am I supposed to do in Illyria?…

With whom is Duke Orsino in love with? Olivia Where has Valentine been? Why? trying to reach Olivia to profess Orsino’s love for her. Why won’t Olivia receive Valentine? Olivia’s stuck in mourning for her brother’s death and wishes to…

love is a disease -both Orsino and Olivia seem to suddenly “catch” love; Orsino wants to rid himself of the sickness while Olivia remarks that she caught the plague after one day;Olivia to portray romantic love as a kind of…

Nigel Hawthorne “He’s a sad man and in many ways completely ludicrous, because he displays the height on conceit and pomposity” Illyria (carnival) “A topsy-turvy world of confusion and masquerades” Gibson Don’t mean what they say “They seem to mean…