Category: Twelfth Night

By effectively manipulating comedy and the satirical use of jokes and humour, Shakespeare successfully managed to comment on certain aspects of Elizabethan society in his play ‘Twelfth night’. Through his use of puns, irony, double entendres and satire, Shakespeare manages to entertain his Elizabethan audience whilst commenting on many ideas and values that revolve around…

Gender from Then to Today The societal role of women within british literature is a recurring theme seen across the centuries. Whether it be Guinevere in a lustrous affair with Sir Lancelot, to the Wife of Bath battling gender norms, to Viola fighting for work in a mans world we see the importance of gender…

William Shakespeare is deemed to be the greatest dramatist of all time. As Ben Jonson, one of his closest friends once said, Shakespeare is not of an age but for all time. Many of his plays continue to be studied in our modern era and are a staple to any English curriculum. He has many…

What is the value of Shakespeares work in modern society? William Shakespeare, just the mention of that name is enough to excite a chorus of groans around any classroom. Weve all heard of him, but the name incites a level of fear because we expect to not understand the difficult language or gain anything from…

Twelfth Night or What You Will is a Shakespearean play that includes many comedic conventions like disguise, trickery and love interests. It is these conventions that make modern audiences enjoy and laugh at Twelfth Night, contrary to Sir Richard Eyres comment, ‘It’s true that a lot of Shakespeare’s jokes aren’t very good, because they’re topical,…

Love. it is such an interesting thing to think about, and it is very complicated. But we have to remember that people see it differently to others, they may see it as a curse, or as fate, but in the same sense, it means similar things. To show you what I mean, there are two…

Shes The Man may be a beautiful and uproarious comedy recorded within the us. it had been directed in 2002 by Andy Fickman and relies on the play the Twelfth night written and composed by poet. within the film Shes The Man the main character, Viola Hastings, disguises herself as a person and takes her…

Recently Ive been learning about William Shakespeare and his works in English. He was an incredible playwright who was born in (approximately) 1564 and died in 1616. He has been credited for adding (approximately) 3000 words to the English language. He wrote some amazing renowned plays which I have been studying like Hamlet, A Midsummer…

This essay will discuss the theme of relationships reflected in the characters of Viola and Duke Orsino in the film Twelfth Night and Shes The Man. Both depict a love triangle where the female lead fallsin love with the main male character,who is in love with someone else.In Shes the Man, Viola, who pretends to…

The word appropriation means moving a text from one context to another, but keeping particular elements like the setting and character similar. An example of appropriation from both the film and the play is the quote some are born great, some achieve greatness this quote is said in both the film and the play and…