Farce | Something absurd Like slapstick Improbable situations |
Satire | The use of humor or exaggeration to criticize others |
Pun | A play on words |
Bear Baiting | Important themeChain Malvolio to the ground |
Bear Baiting | What people would do is they would chain bears to the ground and then sic dogs on them and the last dog standing won (the dogs all died) |
Meter | a line of a poem |
Saturnalia | Said to be an old festival around, if not on, Christmas |
Synesthesia | Combination of the sensesSmells that trigger memories |
Indoor Setting | This play is an indoor play |
Anagnorisis | Enlightenment SceneThe Big Reveal |
Self-love | Malvolio is in love with himself |
Music | This play is Shakespeare’s most musical playClown singsThe clown is actually a traveling minstrel |
Comedy | much satire, so funny or punny haha, situational humor at its best |
Dissimulation | Means: To hide under false appearanceViola pretending to be a man (Cesario) |
Deception | Having people believe something that isn’t true–Sebastian is dead–Viola is Cesario –Olivia falling in love with Viola |
Clown/Fool | Really one of the smartest people in the playSarcastic Knew that Viola was a girlHave to be wittyTHEY’RE BASICALLY THE SAME THING |
Clown | Witty Puts humor and intelligence togetherSmartest character in the play |
Fool | Often regarded as unintelligentMadmanBeing a fool requires wit too |
“So comes it, lady, you have been mistook/ But nature to her bias drew in that.” | Said by Sebastian to OliviaTalking about how Olivia mistook Viola/Cesario for an actual man |
“This is open. I will be proud. I will read poetic authors. I will baffle Sir Toby. I will toss off gross acquaintance.” | Said by Malvolio Said when he’s reading his “letter from Olivia” |
“For the rain it raineth every day.” | Sung by the clownAt the end of the play (the final song) |
“Doest thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” | Said by Sir TobySaid to Malvolio Basically telling Malvolio (captain stick in the mud) that ‘just because you don’t party doesn’t mean we can’t.) |
“I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words.” | Said by the clown to Viola |
“She never told her love,/ But let concealment, like a worm i’the bud,/ Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;/ And with a green and yellow melancholy,/ She sat like Patience on a monument,/ Smiling at grief.” | Said by Viola |
“What shall I do in Illyria?” | Said by Viola in speaking to the boat captain that saved her from drowning |
“Thus, the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” | Said by the clown Talking to Malvolio |
“If this were played upon the stage now I would condemn it as improbable fiction.” | Said by Fabian |
“What relish is in this? How runs the stream?/ Or I am mad, or else this is a dream…/ If it be a dream, still let me sleep.” | Said by SebastianSaid to Olivia |
Twelfth Night
July 23, 2019