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. ... Throughout Twelfth Night Shakespeare examines patterns of love and courtship through a repositioning of traditional Elizabethan gender roles. ... Shakespeare uses the comedy behind Viola's gender transformation to explore the notion that concepts of romantic love are not always selective by gender. ... Like many of Shakespeare's plays and poems, As You Like...

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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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