Act one
1. Orsino’s melodramatic soliloquy and we first hear about Olivia’s mourning
• “if music be the food of love, play on,”
• “seven years’ heat”
2. Viola talks to captain about disguise after being saved from shipwreck
• “ill serve this duke”
• “present me as a eunuch”
3. Sir Tobey, Maria and sir Andrews drunken interactions
• “mistress Mary accost”
• Bring you hand to the buttery bar”
• “its four to one she’ll none of me”
4. Cesario speaks to Orsino alone sending him to Olivia’s
• “if the duke continues these favours to you, Cesario, you are like to be much
advanced”
• “stand you awhile aloof”
• “dear lad”
• “all is semblative of a woman’s part”
5. Feste tries to cheer up Olivia, Olivia is wooed by viola, and becomes initially embarrassed but
does ring thing
• “take the fool away”
• “o you are sick of self love Malvolio”
• “take those things for bird-bolts that you deem canon bullets”
• “like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman” – about Sir Toby’s drunkenness
• “is well favoured” “one would think his mother’s milk were scares out of him”
• “most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty”- Viola to Olivia
• “I am not that I play”
• “let me see your face” “draw the curtain and show you the picture” ”item: two lips
of indifferent red”
• “what’s your parentage”
• “ever so quickly may one catch the plague”
, Act Two
1. Sebastian grives for Viola, Antonio’s love?
• “you took me from the breach of the sea”
• “was said she much resembled me” “she is drowned alredy”
• “if you will murder me for your love, let me be your servant”
• “I adore thee so That dangers shall seem sport, and I will go”
2. Viola is given this ring
• “fortune forbid my outside hath not charmed her”
• “poor lady she were better love a dream”
• “O time, thou must untangle this not I; It is two hard a knot for me t’untie”
3. Drunken sir Tobey and Andrew, Feste and Maria encounter sinister Malvolio, and Maria
hatches plan
• “my masters, are you mad?”
• “does ’t thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no cakes and ale?”
• “mistress mary”
• “for monsieur Malvolio, let me alone with him”
• “the devil a puritan that he is”
• “his ground of faith that all that look upon him love him”
• “obscure epistles of love”
4. Orsino explains to viola his opinion on love and women, and Feste’s song where could get to
cosy?
• “she is not worth the then”
• “so sway she level in her husbands heart”
• “for women are roses whose fair flower… doth fall that very hour”
• Orsino on love “mine is as hungry as the sea” but woman’s “no motion of the liver,
but the pallet that suffers surfeit, cloyment”
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5. Watching Malvolio read letter
• “by my life this is my ladies hand”
• “let me see, let me see , let me see” – his slowness to understand
• “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust
upon them”
• “I thank my stars I am happy”
• “he will come in yellow stockings ‘tis a colour she abhors”
