When looking at the similarities between Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and As You Like It, the most obvious connections lie in the manner in which the two main female roles both disguise themselves as men within the plays. But with ... limited to performing as a "woman would in the situation."" This can be seen in As You Like It act II, scene 4, when Rosalind breaks down and cries [unlike a man]. Throughout Twelfth Night Shakespeare examines patterns of love and courtship through a repositioning of traditional Elizabethan gender roles. The familiar comic formula of identical twins creating con...

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... already undermined in Reniassance culture but is this reflected in the dramatic productions of the preiod? There are representations of such male bonds within Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Marlowe's Edward II which we shall now examine. In Twelfth Night there are a number of relationships represented which all provide some comment on the issue we are addressing. We will concern ourselves with that of Sebastian ... this is a sodomitical relationship and that issues of censorship only allow the author to make the allusion through implication and couching it in an acceptable discourse of...

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