HUM 3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Upstart Crow, Menaechmi, First Folio
Document Summary
Play & comedy: first published in first folio, 1623, first known performance, 1602, plot & many details borrowed from other plays, including the deceived ones and. Plautus" menaechmi: comedy: humor & ends happily, characters parallel. In anxiety about position: theatre, believability of this spectacle (3. 4. 121-2, comedy of errors & constant wordplay (3. 1. 1-15, corrupter of words theatrical space. Illyria as utopia ( no place : twelfth night is a suspension of ordinary life, so, suspend your disbelief Revelry: twelfth night (epiphany, january 6) holy day & pagan festival, licensed disorder, role of the clown (feste, fool & pleasure, sir toby, the lord of misrule . I am sure care"s an enemy to life (1. 3. 2: against confining oneself (1. 3. 7-12, cakes & ales (2. 3. 105-7, curious absence of authority in this play. Pluck on laughter rather than revenge (5. 1. 359-62: malvolio"s response: revenge (371) Cesario responds (2. 4. 101-18: deep disruption: olivia & duke love the same person!
