"Twelfth Night," by William Shakespeare, is a comedy that involves a shipwreck on the coast of the island of Illyria. ... Specifically, Andy Fickman's 2006 adaptation of the Twelfth Night named "She's The Man" gave Shakespeare a new audience and allowed a modern society to enjoy the works of Shakespeare in a more contemporary view. ... Much like in Shakespeare's original "Twelfth Night," a love triangle is formed around Viola's disguise, creating complications that result in humor, even for a modern day audience. ... In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...

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Twelfth Night - Character study: Malvolio Character study: Malvolio: Did he deserve the punishment that he received? The character Malvolio (meaning literally "I mean ill will) is immediately affected by the implications of his name. His personage is implied directly to be one of negative a...

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Twelfth Night contains many themes including love which features frequently in the opening scene of the play. ... Twelfth Night was made by Shakespeare taking events from GL'Igannati in which a ship wreck also occurs.He also takes another part of his story from Barnaby Riche's Apolonius and Silla, in which someone falls in love with the duke. Twelfth Night follows many other of the traditions set in Shakespeare's comedies, such as the theme of love which is usually prevalent in every Shakespeare comedy as can be seen with Orsino announcing his love for Olivia. ... Orsino'...

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Gender is society's dictation of how an individual should act, in accordance with their sex. Shakespeare challenges the assumptions made about gender in his own society. He presents gender as a changeable trait, not necessarily corresponding to the sex of the character. Furthermore, he presents gender in a way contradictory to the conventions of his time, through the use of disguise. In Elizabethan times, women were not allowed to act on stage, and society considered them to be the weaker sex, who needed to be looked after, or 'owned' by men. ...

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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. ... That Twelfth Night often seems to step outside this frame of reference suggests that we should consider Sebastian and Antonio's relations...

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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. ...

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Twelfth Night - Character study: Malvolio Character study: Malvolio: Did he deserve the punishment that he received? The character Malvolio (meaning literally "I mean ill will) is immediately affected by the implications of his name. His personage is implied directly to be one of negative a...

• Word Count: 1158
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate