1. Use of Humor and Dramatic Irony in Twelfth Night
... in, you were still yelling at your book. You were yelling to Olivia, telling her that she was really kissing Sebastian and not Cesario. Of course, Olivia couldn't hear you. This yelling, I call hit-yourself-in-the-forehead comedy. Now this is different from the humor produced when Sir Toby mispronounces a word, or when Sir Andrew starts speaking French, or when Feste starts ... disguise." A comedy means that the protagonist(s) ended up happy/alive at the end of the play. This is obvious in Twelfth Night. In fact, Shakespeare almost overdid it. It was almost corny how every character end...
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