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200 S purned by the beautiful Olivia, Orsino of Illyria begs for sad music to reflect his lovelorn state. Viola is shipwrecked o ...
201 fallen for Cesario. Sir Toby and his friends are partying when the killjoy Malvolio complains about the noise. As he leaves, ...
202 T welfth Night, or What You Wi l l is a comedy in which genders are swapped and identities mistaken. It has an appealing her ...
203 Loves A sad place There is something of the fairy tale in Twelfth Night. The play begins with a girl shipwrecked and alone i ...
204 TWELFTH NIGHT entirely alone in the world. Her reaction is not to go into mourning like Olivia, but to take action. Viola’s ...
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN 205 Viola laments that it has become “too hard a knot for me t’untie” (2.2.41). But we have just seen ...
WAR AND LECHERY CONFOUND ALL TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (1602) ...
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208 A prologue announces that the story begins seven years into the Trojan War. Troilus, son of King Priam of Troy, the younger ...
209 spend an evening together. During the night, Calchas makes a deal with the Greek leader Agamemnon to exchange a Trojan priso ...
210 T roilus and Cressida is a play about war and lust. Thought of as a problem play with an intellectual tone, it is challengin ...
211 The nature of value During a debate about Helen, the Trojans—Paris, Hector, and Troilus— discuss her in terms of worth: “Hec ...
212 Married to Father to TROILUS AND CRESSIDA same way that the war itself has become a legendary quarrel about Helen of Troy. F ...
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN 213 Cressida seemingly embraces her move to the Greek camp, allowing the generals and soldiers to kis ...
I SCORN TO CHANGE MY STATE WITH KINGS’ SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS (1593–1603) ...
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216 T he word sonnet comes from the Italian sonnetto, meaning a little sound. In Shakespeare’s time, it could be used to refer t ...
his friend, or lover (“thee”), which cheers him up, and his happiness is conveyed partly by the image of the lark rising from ea ...
218 SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS Romeo and Juliet’s first words Romeo If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentl ...
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