Essays on Twelfth Night

Historically, the list of Shakespeare’s plays which appeared in 1598 doesn’t include the Twelfth Night. It was referred to by John Manningham in 1602 so it was perhaps composed between these years. Other historical evidences suggest that it was presented to Queen Elizabeth on Twelfth Night in 1601 and her guest of honour was an...

Have you ever felt that your everyday dose of comedy and chaoticness just couldn’t get any better and anymore chaotic? Well, I can assure you that that is the most absurd lie you have ever said in your life! The Shakespearen romantic comedy play Twelfth Night not only is upside down but they celebrate chaoticness...

Introduction “In patriarchal societies, women have been suppressed, marginalized and ignored by the masculine thought that prevails in many areas of life. This situation was directly reflected in the theatre texts related to life and society. However, even if they were ignored, women had a language, discourse, life, culture, art and theatre in their own...

In the play Twelfth Night the truth is always hidden, everyone had something to hide for better of for worse. There are problems that were because of the things someone else invented or was hiding. For example, if we begin talking about what Viola did, dress as a man in order to gain entry into...

Two characters that I find have similar traits are Viola, a.k.a. Cesario, from Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and Deryn Sharp, a.k.a. Dylan, from the book “Leviathan”. They both got into similar challenges at the start of the book, with both of them getting into an accident and having someone else have to rescue them as they...

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a romantic comedic play that reflects and explores the social conventions and values of its context. Written during the Elizabethan era, it profoundly challenges gender roles with the cross-dressing of Viola and her aptitude in a task that had been unsuccessfully attempted by men. It also demonstrates how unreliable social status...

In this essay I will be writing about how theatre and performance can represent, critique and illuminate society. I will be focusing on the two plays “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare and “The Rover” by Aphra Behn. Twelfth Night, written between 1600 and 1601 with Shakespeare having been writing plays regularly since 1590-1591, can illuminate...

Throughout Act 1 and Act 2, the characters of the play prove that they are dependent on each other to progress the play, and have a lot more to them than what is first presented to us, the audience. In Act 1 and 2, Viola is at the forefront of plot development and also has...

Shakespeare’s ‘ Twelfth Nigh’ deliberately explores concepts of gender and love which was later adapted into a film by Andy Fickman called ‘She’s the man’. The change in form from play to film alters the way that these ideas are presented and the changing audience also impacts the transformation of the text. The different ways...

The Twelfth Night (Act 2, Scene 5) Now this twelfth night seems like quite a good play after all, I wasn’t too keen, but my wife roped me into it. At least I get the best seats in the theatre right up high with all my rich friends comfy pillows and. Not crammed at all....