Twelfth Night is essentially a celebration of romantic love and can be viewed as a traditional romantic comedy. The play has many of the elements common to Elizabethan romantic comedy, including the devices of mistaken identity, separated twins, and gender-crossing disguise, and its plot revolves around overcoming obstacles to "true" love. And, like other representatives of the genre, Twelfth Night also features a subplot in which a self-inflated "sour" or "blocking" character, the steward Malvolio, is brought to his knees through a trick orchestrated by a ribald if also self-inflated character in the person of Sir Toby Belch.
enotes.com
Friday, January 30, 2009
An Ideal Husband Genre(s): Adapted from a Play, Blackmail, Books to Film: Oscar Wilde, London, Marriage, Politics...moviegoods.com
Friday, January 23, 2009
Project #1 Academic SMU
2008-09 Theatre Season
The Overwhelming by J.T. Rogers
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
In the Beginning – 15th century mystery plays
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
New Visions, New Voices
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
The Overwhelming by J.T. Rogers
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
In the Beginning – 15th century mystery plays
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
New Visions, New Voices
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)