Deep, so deep, layer upon layer pealed away until we drown within our own shallowness. Not just words, words, words….. I’ll find my way blind, most feelingly. The rest is silence. ❤️🙏
At 44:20 Professor Cantor remarks with surprise that Cesario asks which "exquisite and unmatchable beauty" is the lady of the house: "... You can pick her out in a crowd!" (44:36). He asks because Olivia is veiled. See right before Cesario's entrance: "Give me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face. We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy." It is still ironic that Cesario addresses Olivia as exquisitely beautiful while she is veiled and he as no evidence of his own to verify the claim that she is so gorgeous. It suggests a degree of shallowness and presumption.
However, the Globe 2012 production builds on this and has Viola-as-Cesario initially address Maria, much to the audience's (and Maria's) enjoyment. She then asks 'which is she', when realising she is not getting anywhere.
Agreed _12th Night_ is not overtly political, but it is the best Rom-Com in the canon. The key to writing a great Rom-Com is understanding that it's hysterically funny to the audience but pretty darn serious to the protagonists. There are also important themes of deconstruction that WS touches on but Prof. Cantor eschews.
44:50 - "...anyone could pick her out of a crowd." But Olivia is VEILED, (I.v.150) so Cesario cannot see her beauty. Surely, Viola already knows who it is through other clues (dress, veil, the fact that servant Maria brings her into room where elegantly dressed woman in black is wating etc.)
The production of Twelfth Night that Professor Cantor references with Alec Guinness is not only heavily cut but flawed in several ways. Guinness and Ralph Richardson are good as Malvolio and Toby Belch respectively, but Joan Plowright, although also a fine actress, I thought never really convinced as a boy. It is hard to imagine anyone being fooled by her Cesario for a minute. Worst of all was Feste, played by Tommy Steele. Steele was a middle-grade pop singer of the 1960s who turned to acting later in his career. He has the voice to portray Feste in his troubadour moments, but give him Shakespearian dialogue to handle and the result is an embarrassment.
Twelfth Night starts at 16:50
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I left when he sneered at the Folger Shakespeare Library for choosing the Seven Ages speech to feature on their wall.
Twelfth night one of my favourite plays from shakespear. Thank you sir.
Deep, so deep, layer upon layer pealed away until we drown within our own shallowness. Not just words, words, words….. I’ll find my way blind, most feelingly. The rest is silence. ❤️🙏
Love Hamlet's words, words, words!
At 44:20 Professor Cantor remarks with surprise that Cesario asks which "exquisite and unmatchable beauty" is the lady of the house: "... You can pick her out in a crowd!" (44:36). He asks because Olivia is veiled. See right before Cesario's entrance:
"Give me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face.
We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy."
It is still ironic that Cesario addresses Olivia as exquisitely beautiful while she is veiled and he as no evidence of his own to verify the claim that she is so gorgeous. It suggests a degree of shallowness and presumption.
However, the Globe 2012 production builds on this and has Viola-as-Cesario initially address Maria, much to the audience's (and Maria's) enjoyment. She then asks 'which is she', when realising she is not getting anywhere.
Agreed _12th Night_ is not overtly political, but it is the best Rom-Com in the canon. The key to writing a great Rom-Com is understanding that it's hysterically funny to the audience but pretty darn serious to the protagonists. There are also important themes of deconstruction that WS touches on but Prof. Cantor eschews.
I didn't know the Roundheads closed the theatres. Shakespeare's treatment of Malvolio makes so much sense in this context.
44:50 - "...anyone could pick her out of a crowd." But Olivia is VEILED, (I.v.150) so Cesario cannot see her beauty. Surely, Viola already knows who it is through other clues (dress, veil, the fact that servant Maria brings her into room where elegantly dressed woman in black is wating etc.)
thank you so much for uploading these lectures!! I wouldn't appreciate Shakespeare as much as I do now if I hadn't watched these videos!!
Hello please l need Act 1 scene 5
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The Royal Shakespeare’s production with an all male cast is amazing.
Do you mean the Globe production? It has Mark Rylance as Olivia and Steven Fry as Malvolio.
The production of Twelfth Night that Professor Cantor references with Alec Guinness is not only heavily cut but flawed in several ways. Guinness and Ralph Richardson are good as Malvolio and Toby Belch respectively, but Joan Plowright, although also a fine actress, I thought never really convinced as a boy. It is hard to imagine anyone being fooled by her Cesario for a minute. Worst of all was Feste, played by Tommy Steele. Steele was a middle-grade pop singer of the 1960s who turned to acting later in his career. He has the voice to portray Feste in his troubadour moments, but give him Shakespearian dialogue to handle and the result is an embarrassment.
"Ah...ah...ah...ah" 😢
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1:02:38 The Real politics of the play. Malvolio the Puritan.
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A revelation.
Not every author is aware of all the problems that his character is aware of.
One of my top 39 all-time favorite Shakespeare plays
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I want to know about courtly love and its relation with Shakespearean play twelfth night which is a comedy.
Maybe Look in to winters tale.
i need an essay topic on the 12th night please help
How did u fare? Essay is done?