The Twelfth

to the 17th century Shakespeare’s plays have influenced modern society in varied ways. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is shown to have influenced society by its recent film modernized adaptation. Despite the fact that Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare has been banned it deserves to be analyzed in high school classrooms of today. In 1996 when a high school in Merrimack, New Hampshire removed Twelfth Night from their classroom, the plot was criticized without taking into account the historical…

Twelfth Night Going to the Longwood production of Twelfth Night proved very intriguing from the talented actors, to amazing costumes, extravagant lighting, and slightly modern setting. However, while I enjoyed the performance as a whole; there were a few technical issues that distracted from the overall aesthetic of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Set design is what brings an audience that possibly had no context for the show into the life of the characters. It allows the audience to really step…

Many people know famous Shakespearean works like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, or Othello, but another famous play is Twelfth Night. I originally read this play in my Theatre class, and then I later attended the production put on by students at UNI. The plot of the story consisted of a love triangle between the characters Viola, also known as Cesario; Orsino, a nobleman; and Olivia, a wealthy lady. Viola disguised herself as Cesario in order to earn money since it was against social norms for…

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night has been interpreted in many ways since its original production in the Renaissance era. It has been adapted into books, movies, and abridged videos but this is comparing and contrasting the theme of being betrayed through love’s development in both a movie and play adaptation. Both the Twelfth Night play adaptation and the Twelfth Night movie adaptation deal with the theme of being betrayed through love but they do so in such different ways. In the original Twelfth…

Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy written around 1601. According to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night for his “all-male company” (Shakespeare 1187). In which during Shakespeare’s time plays were performed by men acting both the female and male roles. The subtitle What You Will “underscores the celebratory spirit associated with Twelfth Night, the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6)” (Shakespeare 1187). Twelfth Night is…

Love being a cause of suffering is a persistent theme throughout the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Characters are constantly falling in love with one another, which causes love triangles to appear and create conflict from start to finish. Although the play offers a happy ending, there is much suffering before the characters may be content with their situations. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night has a complex love triangle between a few of the main characters causing several conflicts…

“Did you go to school in your pajamas?”, “How did you make friends?”, “How can you stand having your parents teach you?” These are the questions that plagued the first eighteen years of my life. I don’t like to admit it, but I was homeschooled. Not a modern homeschooler that takes dual-credit or online classes, but an actual homeschooler. What does being homeschooled have to do with my math experiences? The majority, if not all, of my math experience involved my immediate family. Mom, dad, and…

Twelfth Night begins in the mythical land of Illyria where Orsino the nobleman is in love with Lady Olivia. She is currently mourning for her deceased brother, resulting in her unacquainted love for Orsino. Off the coast, a storm produced a horrifying shipwreck…

Love is Overrated, Right? Saying one thing and doing another is a very common occurrence, and reveals one's true self. Though much of Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night is focused and revolved around Countess Olivia and what she does, her thoughts and actions prove to be very jellylike, allowing some to believe she is the most self-indulgent, overrated character in the play. One weakness that makes her an overrated character is her erratic behavior. In the very first scenes of the play, we…

in the fact that from the beginning of time, light and darkness has been accepted as an archetype which established two opposing sides, classic examples being good versus bad, or hope versus despair. This archetype is further present in the play Twelfth Night, in which William Shakespeare utilizes light and darkness in order to identify a conflict between order and chaos surrounding a situation the character Malvolio finds himself in, and further elaborate on the meaning of the work as a whole.…