Summary of Shakespeare's Twelfth night compleat with key quotes
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Unit 1 - Drama
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Twelfth Night
A rough guide to each section of the play and scenes with key events, along with key quotes. Very useful for finding quotes that you are thinking of and generally navigating the narrative and various plots.
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Critical Quotations Relating to Characters and Themes in Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
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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”
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