What is an alternative title for the play? | What you will |
What is the significance of the alternative title? | In Elizabethan time, “will” could mean wish or inclination, or it could also mean an irrational desire uncontrolled by judgement |
What is the significance of the title Twelfth Night | Shakespeare was probably referring to the Christmas Twelfth night, or Epiphany. it was a time of madness and celebration |
What response does Orsino get when he questions Valentine about Olivia? | Valentine says she is mourning her dead brother. She will walk veiled like a nun for 7 years |
Who governs Illyria? | Duke of Orsino |
What news of Ophelia does the Captain relate to Viola? | She is a “virtuous maid,” who after the deaths of her father and brother, has scorned the thought of seeing men |
What idea does Viola propose? | that she dress like a boy and enter into the service of the Duke |
Who is Olivia;s uncle? | Sir Toby Belch |
Who did Sir Thomas once bring as a wooer to Olivia, and what was he like? | Sir Andrew Aguecheek: tall, gets 3,000 ducats a year, multilingual. |
What does Maria think of Andrew Auguecheek? | Maria insists he is a fool, is prodigal, a coward and a drunk |
What perception does the audience have of Sir Andrew after his first appearence? | he is a fool, and he thinks that the Taurus is related to the sides of the heart |
What name does Viola go by when she is dressed as a man? | Cesario |
What does the Duke tell Violet/Cesario to do if she sees Olivia? | to “unfold the passion of my love” |
How does the duke try to convince Viola to go see Olivia, and why is this ironic? | He says that Cesario (Viola) is so young she is like a woman, which of course the audience knows to be true because she is a woman. |
Who is Feste and what is his role? | he is the court jester, who is actually intellectual. His private life is hidden |
How does Feste prove Olivia a fool? | He asks why she is in mourning, and when she insists that it is for her dead brother in heaven, he says she should not mourn because he is in heaven |
What does Olivia say when she hears a man is at the door? | tell him she is sick or not at home |
What does Feste say of a drunken man? | that he is a fool and a madman, the 1st drink heats him, the 2nd drink mads him, the 3rd drowns him |
What news does Malvolio return to Olivia? | That a man outside wishes to speak with her and he cannot be tricked into thinking she is not there. |
What is the description given of Cesrario by Malvolio? | he is of “ill manner” and describes that he is between the ages of boy and man and speaks shrewdly |
What is Olivia’s reaction toward Viola? | She is annoyed with her and tells her, “if you be not mad, be gone. if you have reason, be brief” |
How does Viola characterize the message she brings to Olivia | She says it is as if she holds “the olive in my hand, her words are those of peace |
What does Viola respond when asked where her text is? | “In orsino’s bosom” |
Why does Viola wish Olivia to reveal her face? | So that she can comment on its beauty and tell Olivia how cruel if would be not to have children when she is so beautiful |
How does Viola say the duke loves Olivia? | “with adorations, fertile tears, with groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire” |
What does Sebastion believe happened to his twin? | he thinks she drowned |
What is olivia afraid of when Malvolio brings her a ring that Olivia wanted returned to her? | she is afriad Olivia might be in love with her, which, if so, she says “she were better love a dream” because viola is not a man” |
Who makes a reference to the twelfth day of December? | Sir Thomas, in a song |
Who really wrote the letter that Malvolio finds, which appears to be in Olivia’s hand? | Maria |
What initials are given in the letter of the man whom Olivia seems to love? | M.O.A.I. |
In their meeting. what confession does Olivia make to Viola? | “I love thee so…nor wit nor reason can my passion hide” |
What changes are perceptible in Malvolio after he reads the letter he believes Olivia wrote? | he wears yellow stockings, smiles with more lines on his face from trying to smile |
What does Olivia think of Malvolio’s strange behavior? | She says, “Why, this is very midsummer madness” |
What does Olivia give to Viola? | a locket with her picture in it |
Who is arrested? | Antonio |
Who does Antonio think Viola is, and what does he say about this person? | he thinks she is sebastian, and he says that he resuced him and brought him back to health with a great amount of love |
What does Viola think about the fact that she was mistaken for her brother? | she hopes he was right that her brother is alive |
In the following scene, who mistakes Sebastian for Cesario? | Feste |
What is sebastian’s response when Olivia tells him to come with her? | at first he thinks he is dreaming, but then he goes with her |
During his conversation with Feste, what does Malvolio repeatedly call him? | a fool |
How does the duke know Antonio? | he took his ship and the cargo on board which was returning from Crete, he boarded the Tiger when Antonio’s nephew Titus lost his leg |
What reactions do the Duke and Antonio have to seeing Sebastian and Viola side by side? | “one face, one voice, one habit, and 2 persons…””An apple, cleft in 2, is not more twain than these 2 creatures” |
When did Viola’s father die? | when she and sebastian were 13 |
At the end of the play, who are the new couples? | Sebastian and Olivia, Orsino and Viola |
What does Olivia feel has been abused? | malvolio |
In what ways is Viola similar to Sebastian? | twins,both come from sea, both native to Illyria, they come from the sea |
Why is it ironic that Viola wins Olivia’s love for Sebastian, redeems Antonio’s life, and herself marries the duke of Illyria | because she is a passive character |
What role does time play in the play? | Viola hopes time will solve her problems, it is sometimes cast in a negative light. it is referenced many times |
In what ways is Antonio’s character a characterization of war? | he is anguished, bound, confused and mad, and he faces the possibility of death |
Shakespeare Exam: Twelfth Night
July 21, 2019