All the dilemmas, mistaken identities, tricks, pranks and jokes, were what made the play, Twelfth Night, a classic. Shakespeare's use of dramatic and situational irony is used to its full potential, and he brought in humor as a tool to keep the ... a tough audience to please. They tend to have shorter attention spans and need to be kept laughing. That's why they"re reading/watching a comedy; to laugh. Shakespeare was very aware of this; therefore, there was never a dull moment. Also, a play that makes you laugh is usually the same kind of play that makes ... of characters, particularly by di...

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Close Reading of Twelfth Night Act II, scene iii In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act II, scene iii adds to the comical direction of the play by providing a merry comedy by Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Feste in their jesting songs, jokes and "unruly" ... others, treating them like children or animals that have to be shown the proper way to conduct themselves. In general, Scene three brings together some of the main characters in Twelfth Night, and makes definite contrasts between all involved. The contrasts generally hold true to form except in Malvolio's case whose arrogant attitude is destroye...

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... arising from kinship and recognition of attractive qualities. Love is also hard to describe. There are many kinds of love. In the play "Twelfth Night," the emotion of love is explored and described with great detail. Throughout the play Shakespeare examines three different types of love: romantic love, self-love and friendship. The play consists of a love triangle; however, many of the characters ... self -love but it is not as big a problem. Sir Toby only cares about himself and no one else not even his friends. He ignores Maria's warnings about drinking at night and he continues to pu...

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Feste, a Clown I personally found the role of the clown to be the most interesting of all the characters in Shakespeare's "The Twelfth Night", primarily because he seemed to be the most intelligent and certainly the wittiest character of all. Although the clown's role starts out to be minor, he ends up being a very ... ...

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