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dance1
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What does the quote "If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die" mean?

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Posted by dance1 on Monday January 29, 2007 at 3:39 PM and tagged with shakespeare twelfth night, twelfth night.

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  1. readingbooks17 Student

    In the opening scene of the first Act of Twelfth Night, we meet Orsino, and learn at once that he is a hopeless romantic. He is in love with love, and melancholy from the mere thought of it; and here he muses on love while musicians play around him in his castle. Orsino, Duke (and ruler) of the romantic kingdom of Illyria, is in love with Countess Olivia, who loves him not. She has rejected him over and over again in her determination to mourn the death of her brother. It might be said that, while Orsino is in love with love, Olivia is in love with grief.

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    Posted by readingbooks17 on Monday January 29, 2007 at 3:52 PM

  2. revolution
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    In the opening scenes of Act I of the book "The Twelfth Night", Duke Orsino, the emperor of the kingdom of Illyria, is madly in love with a wealthy lady, Countless Olivia, who is in mourning for her brother who had died recently and was  annoyed by his inappropriate attentions in such gloom and doom moments. She had rejected him countless times, but he still persisted. This shows how obsessed he is with the countless. His idea of a medicine to cure with his obsession of Olivia, is to stuff himself silly and overload himself with his own pathetic little passions.

     

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    Posted by revolution on Saturday August 15, 2009 at 7:30 AM