ENG220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Edmund Keene, Twelfth Night, Malvolio
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A comedy, written 1597-99, quarto printed in 1600, the other comedies we"ve read from the fifteen nineties, twelfth night, with a figure of exclusion at the end. History of the merchant of venice can be both the genre, and the word story, could just be the story of the merchant, but the folio paints it. Shylock goes between being called shylock and the jew" even in the speech prefixes throughout the play. Portia is mentioned by name on the title, page, even though antonio is not, to remind us that she is an important character. The key opposition that we will see in act four scene: portia vs shylock. They have very different problems, it wants us to contrast them. Shylock is played as comic figure until 1741, the extreme cruelty" imagines him as a cruel figure. Belief that this is an anti-semitic play, that playing of shylock as the jew" and because of the opposition in act 4.
