Shakespeare's Twelfth Night--Summary and Commentary

[@ronaldstrange8981]

Your enthusiasm for Shakespeare is infectious. Always, enjoyable and informative. Many thanks. Kind regards fdrom England. Keep safe and well. December 2020.

[@Nancenotes]

Thank you! Here’s to a less eventful 2021!

[@sudeepnair5477]

I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart. This quick summary gave me great insights into the drama. Your enthusiasm has infected me too !

[@Nancenotes]

Glad I could help!

[@penelopetheconartist5247]

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[@clairesstitchingcorner8910]

Happy national Shakespeare day

[@Nancenotes]

My favorite holiday!!!

[@ccw0216]

It’s amazing and detailed. Thank you very much. It helped me a lot for my English Literature exam

[@dianeallen5803]

Very excellent tie, Professor Nance. "For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are." It seems that the Bard might agree with your assessment of Romeo (and mine of Proteus).

[@dianeallen5803]

At one point Viola is directed to a destination that is west of her, and so she says, Westward-ho! Do you think all the pioneers who said Westward-ho! as they headed out west were intentionally quoting Shakespeare, or was that just a coincidence? There are so many things that people say that they don't know they are quoting Shakespeare. Maybe that's neither here nor there.

[@dianeallen5803]

@@ClariceAust Thereby hangs a tale! By the way, All's Well that Ends Well is the only one of Shakespeare's plays that I haven't read yet. I was saving it til last. 😁

[@Nancenotes]

You’re in for a treat when you read it! It’s wonderfully infuriating! Also, when I taught freshmen, I made them keep allusion journals. Every day I put up a Shakespeare quote, a Bible verse, or something from mythology, and they had to listen and look for them in life.

[@dianeallen5803]

@@Nancenotes Do you still have the quotes that you used?

[@dianeallen5803]

@@ClariceAust When I was an undergraduate, I took a Shakespeare for non-majors class (the wrong class!) taught by a woman with a fixation on Lear. We read Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens and then spent the rest of the semester on Lear. I like Lear a lot, but it's not one I want to revisit all that often. I revisit Macbeth a lot. This time around, I even read Two Noble Kinsmen, which is anthologized nowhere because scholars weren't convinced that the Bard wrote it. I'd love to see a production of it because there are wonderful scenes when the Jailer's Daughter goes mad. I just got my copy of Northrup Frye on Shakespeare today and can't wait to read it. By the way, when I say I read the plays, I mean I have watched performances. The plays are, after all, scripts.

[@siempre8028]

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