Viola's Roles In Twelfth Night

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Kietzman, Mary Jo. "Will Personified: Viola as Actor-Author in Twelfth Night." Criticism 54.2
(2012): 257-89. Web. Identity and status weigh on the players and plays themselves. Actors were being portrayed as professionals and characterizing them in a radiant light aside from their characters. For Viola, at the time, women were not permitted on the stage. Viola’s player would in turn be a male playing a female, playing a male as Cesario.
Caldecott, Henry Stratford (1896). Our English Homer, or, the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy:
A Lecture. Johannesburg: Johannesburg Times. p. 9. This play could be a source from the Italian play The Deceived Ones written by Intronati in 1531. In this production the male lead was Orsino. This was suggested
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Web. This is modern adaptations of Twelfth Night on film. The main film discussed is She’s the Man. Amanda Bynes plays Viola. The scene is at a school. Viola decides to portray her brother to play soccer and to trick a mean girl at her school. This film modernizes Twelfth Night while still keeping the themes of gender identity and androgyny.
Sekiya, Takeshi. “On Psychological Phenomena Observed in Romantic Lovers in Twelfth
Night.” The journal of Psychoanalytical Study of English Language and Literature. 1984, 1984(8):5-26. Web. This is describing the disguise plot. There is a relation to Jung’s theory on individuation with the dramatization of androgyny in the play. This suggests that both Orsino and Olivia achieve individuation through Viola/Cesario. There is also a reference to the fixation on homosexuality and heterosexuality as something that defines the character.
Lindheim, Nancy. "Rethinking Sexuality and Class in Twelfth Night." University of Toronto
Quarterly 76.2 (2007): 679-713. Web. This is an investigation of the gender issues and class systems in Twelfth Night. This examines the last scene where the couples are paired in male female, heterosexual, pairs. It references both the realistic and comic character portrayals and arcs in the

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