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| • Methought she purged the air of pestilence/that instant was I turn’d into a hart’ and my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, e’er since pusue me. |
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classical allusion to Artemis and Actaeon.
• Orsino is compared to actaeon, a greek youth, who watched artemis bathing in a poind when he was hunting. She caught him looking and transformed him into a stag(deer). Actaeons hounds chased him and killed him |
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| • How will she love when the rich golden shaft hath kill’d the flock of all affections else that live in her; when liver, brain, and heart |
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: classical allusion to eros/cupid (page 11)
• Cupid, roman boy-god of love, had two cinks of arrows: the arrows with golden tips caused instant love, while those with leaden tips cause hatred or scorn. |
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| • My brother he is in Elysium |
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classical allusion to mythical heaven “Elysium”
• Home of the blessed dead, a kind of heaven |
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| • I saw your brother/ bind himself/To a strong mast that lived upon the sea/ where, like arion on the dolphins back,/ I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves |
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: classical allusion to Arion (pg 17)
• Arion is a young greek musician who leapt into the sea to escape a crew of seamen who were planning to rob him, he was carried to safety on the back of a dolphin |
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| for they shall yet belie thy happy years,/ that say thou art a man. Diana’s lip. Is not more smooth and rubious, that small pie/ is as the maidens organ, shrill and sound. |
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duke says this
classical allusion Diana/artemis
• Diana’s lip: the beautiful roman goddess of the moon, the hunt, and spiritual love |
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| toby would leave drinking, though wert as witty a piece of eve’s flesh as any in Illyria |
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feste
• Eve’s flesh is woman
biblical allusion to Adam and Eve- eves flesh ( |
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| • : o, you are sick of self love, malvolio, and taste of free disposition, is to take those things for bird bolts that you deem cannon, bullets. There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail, noor no railing in a known d |
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Olivia to malvolio
Classical allusion and archetype you are “you are sick of self love” narcissus
• Self love is narcissus archetype |
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| now may mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou speakest well of fools |
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• Feste
classical allusion “now mercury.. “ hermes(pg 47
• May mercury make you a skilled liar, mercury(hermes) was the roman god of liars, cheats, tricksters, and thieves. |
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| thou hast spoke for us, Madonna, as if thy eldest son should be a fool, whose skull jove cram with brains! For here he comes, one of thy kin moset weak pia master |
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• feste
Classical Allusion “whose skull jove” it is zeus. Jupiter is zeus too
• Jupiter was the god of the romans (like zeus |
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| : it alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage, I hold the olive in my hand. |
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• Viola
SYMBOL(symbols are archetypes)- olive is a symbol of peace(
• Olive branch: peace |
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| make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call upon my soul within the house; write loyal cantons of contemned love, and sing them loud even in the dead of night; |
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• Viola:
Symbols-willow is a symbol of grief
• The willow tree is traditionally associated with the grief of unrequited love. |
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| how now, my hearts! Did you never see the picture of “we three”? |
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• Feste:
• A common illustration for an inn’s sign. It featured two fools or asses and was inscribed we three. The viewer was the third. Feste is suggesting that he, sir toby and sir Andrew are asses
regular allusion to a shakesperean inn’s sign . picture |
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| I did impeticos thy gratillity: for malvolio’s nose is no whipstock; my lady has a white hand, and the myrmidons are no bottle-ale house |
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• Feste:
• Myrmidons, are followers of the greek hero achilles
classical allusion “the myrmidons are no” |
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• Sir toby
regular allusion to “penthesilea”/queen of amazons
• To maria, penthesillia was a tall queen of amazons |
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| Come away, come away/ and in sad cypress let me be laid |
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• Feste’s song:
• Cypress a coffin made of cypress wood. It is associated with death
symbol |
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| now the melancholy god protect thee; and the tailer make thy doublet of changeable taffeta for the mind is a very opal. |
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• Feste:
• Melancholy god was Saturn, whos planted was to control sad peopleopalL a semiprecious gem that, like taffeta, chanes color in different lights
classical allusion “ the melancholy god” Saturn/cronus(101) and symbol of opal(inconstant) |
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| there is example for’t; the lady of starchy married the yeoman of the wardrobe |
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• Malvolio
regular allusion “the lady of starchy” who married below her station (malvolio hopes Olivia would marry her) |
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• Sir Andrew:
, jezebel proud and wicked wife of ahab, king of Israel, in the bible.
biblical allusion to jezebel |
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| : now is the woodcock near the gin |
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• Fabian: \
• Woodcock a proverbially stupid bird
woodcock is a symbol of stupidity( |
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| commentating letter: by your leave, wax. Soft! and the impressure her lucrece, with which she uses to seal |
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• Malvolio
• Lucrece: olivia’s ring seal depicts lucretia, a noble roman woman, who stabbed herself after she was raped by tarquinius, she is symbolic of chastity
: classical allusion lucrece— and symbol of chastity |
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| to the gates of tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit! |
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• Sir toby:
• The underworld of classical mythology
classical allusion to tartarus/mythological hell |
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| : I would play lord pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring a Cressida to this Troilus |
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• Feste:
• Cressida was the daughter of a greek priest a beggar, Troilus, a Trojan prince. They were lovers during the Trojan war. Cressida’s unchle, pandarus, had introduced them. 3 coins
classical allusion to Troilus and Cressida |
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| the double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash off, and you are now sailed into the north of mya lady’s opinion, where you will hang like an icicle on a dutchman’s beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt either valour or policy. |
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• Fabian:
• Allusion to the arctiv voyage of William Barents, a duchman whose adventures were published just before twelfth night was written.
regular allusion to the arctic voyage ( |
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| an’t be any way, it must be with valour, for policy I hate, I had as life be a brownist as a politician |
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• Sir andrew
• Follower of Robert brown, who advocated the complete separation of church and sate, puritan.
: regular allusion to the brownists |
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| he does smile with his face into more lines than is the new map of twith the augmentation f=of the indies, you have not see such a thing as ;tis. |
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• Maria:
• The islands of the south pacific, a new map of the world, prepared in 1599, or 1600 that showed more detail of the far east
regular allusion to the new map of indies |
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| why this is very midsoummer madness |
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• Olivia:
• It was believed that the full moon of midsummer’s eve(june 23) could jumble a persons wits and cause eccentric behavior.
: regular allusion to shcakespeare “ midsummer madness” |
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| SYMBOLS- topaz is a symbol to cure lunacy |
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| bbonos dies, sir toby, for, as the hold hermit of prague that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of king gorboduc, that that is is, |
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• feste
• gorboduc was a legendary king of Britain, he may or may not have had a niece. The logica is festes ironic comment on digues and playing roles.
regular allusion to king gorboduc |
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| madman, thou errest. I say there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou are more puzzled than Egyptians in their fog. |
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• feste
• Reference to the plage of darkness that moses inflicted.
: biblical allusion to the Egyptians “in their fog” (197) refers to the plague |
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| what is the oppinon of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl? |
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• Feste
• Greek philosopher who believed in reincarnation
regular allusion to Pythagoras/philosopher |
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| that face of his I do remember well, yet when I saw it last it was besmear’d as a black Vulcan in the smoke of war. |
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• Duke
• Roman god of fire and blacksmiths
classical allusion to Vulcan / hephaestus (215) fire and blacksmiths |
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| : like to the Egyptian theief at a point of death, kill what I love? |
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• Duke:
• Story of thyamis and chariclea, thyamis is a robber chief, kidnapped princess chariclea and brought her to ca cave, where he was attacked by other robbers, he tried to kill chariclea so that his attackers couldn’t haver her, however, the darkness of the cave, he killed another woman instead,.
• classical allusion to the thyamis and chariclea |
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| – allusion to the 12 days after Christmas because everything is turned upside down/ROLL REVERSAL AND CROSS DRESSING. |
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