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    <title>Twelfth Night Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Twelfth Night Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[At the play's conclusion, a thoroughly humiliated Malvolio vows "I'll be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At the play's conclusion, a thoroughly humiliated Malvolio vows "I'll be reveng'd on the whole pack of you" (V, i., l.378), and many Shakespeare critics maintain that he has good cause to utter this discordant oath. Over the centuries, scholars have pondered what has come to be called the "problem of Malvolio." By this they mean that although Malvolio is a prude, a hypocrite, and an upstart, he does not deserve the cruel treatment that he...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Twelfth Night end on a somewhat sour note. The final epilogue to the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Twelfth Night end on a somewhat sour note. The final epilogue to the play is a song by the mean clown Feste who relates his life as a wastrel, unable to find a wife and reduced to sleeping with drunken tosspots. In Feste's final ditty, life is depicted as grim, "for the rain it raineth every day" (V, i., l.392). Along with the "problem of Malvolio", there are some other disturbing aspects to Twelfth Night. There are, for example, numerous...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:31:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At the conclusion of Twelfth Night, Viola sheds her disguise as the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At the conclusion of Twelfth Night, Viola sheds her disguise as the young officer Cesario, Duke Orsino instantly drops his opposition to her (and her twin brother Sebastian's) love for Olivia and then "switches" his affections to a young woman whom he has thus far known only as a man. The gender confusion aside, this turnabout seems extremely odd, for Orsino has doggedly pursued his Olivia, praising the singularity of her character and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:33:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Illyria was known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries as an actual...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Illyria was known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries as an actual region off the coast of the Adriatic Sea in what is today Albania. As such, it was a distant land with which English had very little contact, and therefore a generically exotic setting for a play replete with romance and intrigue, as well as one that offered the preconditions for a shipwreck.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:06:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a practice essay question, isnt it? lol Im doing the same one...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is a practice essay question, isnt it? lol Im doing the same one atm. Correction, Im planning on soon starting the same one... Due Thursday.
Ill post anything interesting/useful that i find? Cool?
xx]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:50:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sonnet 73 is about someone who loves a person who is getting old....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 73 is about someone who loves a person who is getting old. According to the speaker in the sonnet, the love is stronger because the lover recognizes that they don't have long together. It is about someone who loves a person despite his outward appearance. So, people who are not judging the book by the cover.
In 12th Night, what is below the surface is more important than what is above. Olivia and Orsinio both judge books by their...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:44:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Malvolio is a "stuffed shirt" type of man.
He would be fastidious about...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Malvolio is a "stuffed shirt" type of man.
He would be fastidious about his appearance and would spend time flossing just right. He would organize his sock drawer and hang the things in his closet in order. He also moons over Olivia somewhat, so he might plot to get her and to get the two troublemakers Sir Toby Belch and Andrew into trouble.
This is a great question! Here are some suggestions:
1. Iron undergarments and socks until they are...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:31:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Malvolio do everyday that would be on his agenda?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/twelfth-night/q-and-a/what-does-malvolio-do-everyday-that-would-his-89173</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does Malvolio do everyday that would be on his agenda?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:42:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grammardog Guide to Twelfth Night]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Modelled on Plautus, Twelfth Night, may be called a comedy of mistaken...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Modelled on Plautus, Twelfth Night, may be called a comedy of mistaken identities. Consider the following leads to develop your answer:
a) Viola &amp; Sebastian are twin brother &amp; sister. Since Viola assumes male attire, they become perfect look-alikes.
b) Viola, disguised as Cesario, takes employment in Duke Orsino's court. She loves &amp; wants to marry Orsino while Orsino sends her to Lady Olivia to make her accept Orsino's courtship....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:11:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes!  This is a typical element in comedies during Shakespeare's time...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes!  This is a typical element in comedies during Shakespeare's time since the audience is always in on the joke.  They know more than the characters on stage (dramatic irony) which makes the mistaken identity so darned funny...not to mention that you've got great disguises going on and women are falling in love with men who are really other women in men's clothing, etc.  It makes for great fun.  Check out all the links below since this...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:08:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is Twelfth Night as a comedy Of Mistaken identities?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is Twelfth Night as a comedy Of Mistaken identities?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:38:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The festival of the Epiphany on the twelfth day from Christmas was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The festival of the Epiphany on the twelfth day from Christmas was observed with numerous ceremonies which included performance of plays at Court. Shakespeare's play Twelfth  Night was also presumably written for performance on Twelfth Night. It was one of four plays the performance of which before Queen Elizabeth in the Christmas season of 1601-02 is recorded.
Twelfth Night may be called a festive comedy primarily because of the occasion of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 7 Jun 2009 06:16:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes!  There are all the classic elements of a comedy which authors of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/twelfth-night/q-and-a/twelfth-night-festive-comedy-87863</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Yes!  There are all the classic elements of a comedy which authors of the time knew would provoke laughter and merry-aking: a girl dressed as a boy, love interests, mistaken identity (which the audience would have loved), a shipwreck, inside jokes which include the audience, marriages at the end, comic wordplay throughtout, and nobody dies within the context of the play (if you don't consider all the souls lost when the ship actually sinks...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 7 Jun 2009 05:58:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can "Twelfth Night" be considered a festive comedy?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/twelfth-night/q-and-a/twelfth-night-festive-comedy-87863</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Can "Twelfth Night" be considered a festive comedy?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:34:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It has been a matter of conjecture that Twelfth Night was one of four...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It has been a matter of conjecture that Twelfth Night was one of four plays the performance of which before Queen Elizabeth in the Christmas festivities of 1601-02 is recorded. In John Manningham's Diary, the entry relating to Twelfth Night occurs under the date of February 2, 1602. In any case, the title refers to the festival of Epiphany on January 6, and the atmosphere of fun and festivity associated with its observance. The play has a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:39:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" is the only play of his which has an...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" is the only play of his which has an alternative title, namely "What You Will."
'Twelfth Night' is considered to be a reference to the 'Epiphany' which happened to fall on January 6th the twelfth night after Christmas. Although the first recorded performance of the play is 2nd February 1602, it is quite possible that the play was first staged on January 6th and so Shakespeare gave it the title "Twelfth Night."...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 06:00:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss the aptness of the title "Twelfth Night."]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss the aptness of the title "Twelfth Night."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:58:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Act IV Scenes 1 and 3, Olivia mistakes Sebastian the twin brother of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Act IV Scenes 1 and 3, Olivia mistakes Sebastian the twin brother of Viola to be Cesario with whom she has fallen in love with. In Sc.1 she authoritatively breaks up the quarrel between Sebastian and Andrew Aguecheek and Sir Toby Belch and scolds Sir Toby in the following words:

Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my sight!Be not offended, dear...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:54:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Olivia reveal about herself from her words and actions in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Olivia reveal about herself from her words and actions in ActIV of "Twelfth Night"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 05:49:10 PST</pubDate>
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