My master revision doc.
Characters
Olivia
AO2
- “I cannot love you” to orsino
- “Even so quickly may one catch the plague” talking about Viola
- “Lady, you are the cruellest she alive if you leave these graces to the grave and leave the world
no copy” Olivia role is to give on her beauty
- “We will draw the curtain and show you the picture [unveils] … is’t not well done”
- “I left no ring with her what means this lady? Fortune forbid my outside have not charmed her!”
Viola
- “Take the fool away” Olivia does not nd Feste funny “Go to you’re a dry fool; ill no more of
you: besides you grow dishonest”
- “What manner of man? … what is your parentage” Olivia is super cial looking for his status
similar to Orsino
- “Water once a day her chamber round, with eye o ending brine” Olivia sad after the death of
her brother
- “You are too proud” Viola to Olivia
- “If you be not mad, be gone, if you have reason, be brief”
- “Why this is very midsummer madness”
- “Give me my veil: come, throw it o’er my face”
- “Fate show thy force ourselves we do not owe./ what is decreed must be and this is so” (Olivia
believes that she and viola are meant to be together
- “Cesario, by the roses of the spring, by maidenhood, honour, truth and everything, I love thee
so that, maugre all thy pride” Olivia: challenges gender norms + class structure.
- “Plight me the full assurance of your faith” Olivia begging Sebastian to marry her
- “He hath been most notoriously abused” (about malvolio)
- “I did send, after the last enchantment you did here, a ring in chaste of you” (about viola)
- “I will not be so hard-hearted! … labeled to my will: as, item, two lips indi erent red; item, two
grey eyes, with lids to them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were you sent hither to
praise me?”
AO5
- “love can render all human beings ridiculous”
- “Orsino and Olivia […] grounding their a ections upon mere external beauty” H.J Ruggles
- “Orsino and Olivia are mad foolish and yet not unworthy of respect” C.O Gardener 1962
- “Olivia on the whole echoes Orsino. Yet she is less laughable than the duke” C.O Gardener
1962
- “Olivia and Orsino are self-absorbed, self-willed and self-indulgent creatures” Thad Jenkins
Logan 1982
- “The woman wooing the man; an incongruity in society, if not in nature” Peter Cash
- “A character that exerts her power through wit and intelligence” A lex Needham
- “Orsino and Olivia are made foolish yet not unworthy of respect” C. O Gardener 1962
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, Orsino
AO2
- “if music be the food of love play on… give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may
sicken, and so die”
- “O when mine eyes did see Olivia rst, me thought she purged the air with pestilence”
- “I turned into a hart, and my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, e’er since pursue me” (love for
Olivia)
- “Who saw cesario?”
- “Her comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth” (about Olivia)
- “I know the constellations is apt for this a air”
- “Prosper well in this and thou shalt live as freely as thy lord, to call his fortune thine”
- “Husband!… her husband, sirrah!”
- “Let me see thee in thy woman’s weed’s” talking about viola not being in her disguise
- “Enough, no more, tis not so sweet now as it was before” talking about love for Olivia
- “Hath killed the ock of all a ections else that live in her; when liver, brain and heart” orsino
says that all of her will only love him. Liver= seed of passion, brain= thought, heart= desire
- “Her sweet perfections with one self king” orsino saying he will be king of her
- “If ever thou shalt love, in the sweet pangs of it remember me; for such as I am all true lovers
are”
- “That instant I was turned into a hart; and my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, e’er since
pursued me” (love for Olivia)
- “Ill sacri ce the lamb that I do love, to spite a raven’s heart within a dove” (love for Olivia)
- “Thou knows no less but all; I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul” viola
knows his secrets
- “Noble in nature as in name” (his status)
- “For women are as roses, whose fair glowers/ being once displayed too fall that very hour”
Orsino
AO5
- “in love with love, not with Olivia” G.G GERVINUS
- “The duke is drawn to an emotion which he believes is love”
- “Olivia is unattainable and she has told him so repeatedly. Yet orsino persist in making himself
su er, listening to sad love songs”
- “Orsino and Olivia […] grounding their a ections upon mere external beauty” H.J Ruggles
- “The growth of Orsino’s a ection for Viola […] is profoundly comic” C.O Gardner 1962
- “Orsino and Olivia are mad foolish and yet not unworthy of respect” C.O Gardener 1962
- “Olivia on the whole echoes Orsino. Yet she is less laughable than the duke” C.O Gardener
1962
- “Olivia and Orsino are self-absorbed, self-willed and self-indulgent creatures” Thad Jenkins
Logan 1982
- “Narcissistic fool” Herschel Baker
- “The critics seem almost to compete with once another to nd contemptuous tables for Orsino
and to outdo each other in scorning him” Stephen Booth
- “[Orsino] partly perceiving [of Cesario’s femeninity] serves mainly to emphasise the inadequacy
of his perception” C. O Gardener
- “Unreality that Orsino is constantly seeking” C O Gardener 1962
- “The play.. allows characters to play out their wildest fantasies of erotic and social ful lment”
Sonia Massai
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, Viola
AO2
- “be clamorous and leap all civil bounds” orsino says this
- “My brother he is in Elysium, perchance he is not drowned”
- “Conceal me what I am […] ill serve this duke”
- “Ill do my best to woo your lady [aside] yet a barful strife: whoe’er I woo, myself would be his
wife” she likes orsino
- “I am not that I play”
- “I am the man”
- “If God did all” critical of Olivia
- “I am the daughters of my father’s house, and all the brothers too”
- “I am no ghter” (because she has never been taught to ght this is often used to amuse eg in
Trevor Nunn’s 1996 lm)
- “Conceal me what I am”
- “Hath known you but three days but already know you are no stranger” valentine to Viola
- “Say that some lady, as perhaps there is, hath for your love as great pangs of heart as you have
for Olivia” Viola telling Orsino
- “I left no ring with her what means this lady? Fortune forbid my outside have not charmed her!”
Viola about Olivia
- “All is semblative a woman’s part” Orsino
- “Diana’s lip not more smooth and rubious. Thy small pipe is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and
sound, and all is semblative of a woman’s part”
- “For women are as roses, whose fair glowers/ being once displayed too fall that very hour”
Orsino
- “you shall from this time be your masters mistress” Orsino
- Nature with a beauteous wall /doth oft close in pollution” (saying the person that helped her is
good despite the fact that nature often makes beautiful people corrupt on the inside)
- “Thou knowst no less but all; I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul” Orsino
to Viola
- “What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead” (are as secret as a girl’s virginity)
- “If I did love you in my master’s ame, with such su ering, such a deadly life, in your denial I
would nd no sense” (her feelings for Orsino)
- “disguise I see thou art a wickedness”
- “My master loves her dearly, and I, poor monster, fond as much on him/ as she, mistaken,
seems to dote on me” (love triangle!)
- ”o time, thou must untangle this, not I/ it is too hard a knot for me t’untie” Viola
- “Ay but I know […] too well what love women to men may owe” Viola
- “My father had a daughter loved a man/ as it might be, perhaps, were I a woman, I should your
lordship” Viola metaphor unsubtle hinting
- “Concealment like a worm i’th’ bud/ feed on her damask cheek […] she sat like patience on a
monument smiling at grief , was this not love indeed?”
- “My lord would speak, my duty hushes me”
- “apt and willingly to do you rest a thousand deaths I would die” viola willingness to die for
orsino
- “After him I love, more than I love these eyes, more than my life, more by all mores than e’er I
shall love wife. If I do feign, you witnesses above, punish my life for tainting of my love”
- “In women’s waxen hearts to set their forms” gender- women easily fall in love
- “And I poor monster, fond as much of him”
- “Thou dost speak masterly” Orsino saying she speaks well about love which is ironic because
she is a virgin
- “Tell them how much I lack of a man”
- “Say that some lady, as perhaps there is, hath for your love as great a pang of heart as you
have for Olivia” Viola to Orsino
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