All the dilemmas, mistaken identities, tricks, pranks and jokes, were what made the play, Twelfth Night, a classic. ... This is obvious in Twelfth Night. ... Twelfth Night is a comedy, so along with the irony and the confusion came just plain fun. ...
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. ...
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. ...
1) Expectation Shakespeare a writer known almost everywhere someone who is talked about all the time. Most Schools teach his work most drama groups perform his work and you wonder is Shakespeare's work that brilliant. Many people carry around great expectations of how his masterpieces must be absolutely the best there is in its field and without having been in contact with any of his many works might later be really disappointed. This is where I pop into the conversation. I have only seen the movie Romeo and Juliet and observed Hamlet but yet to all my surprise it did not make me go wo...
