The Different Types of Comedy Employed by Shakespeare in...

The Different Types of Comedy Employed by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night William Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night in 1914 as he was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I to write a comic play for very important Italian courtier. The play included themes of love, confusion, disguise and other particularly funny topics from Shakespearean time. The title Twelfth Night fits in well with the comic play for a number of reasons. Twelfth Night is the name used for the Twelfth Day after Christmas. On this day (6th January), decorations are taken down, pranks are made and the servants and masters inverse. Two characters that appear in the play, Sir Toby and Sir Andrew, would like this period of time as†¦show more content†¦He stops their party and tells them off because of his beliefs as a puritan. Malvolio: My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an alehouse of my ladys house, that ye squeak out your coziers catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? (Act 2 Scene 3, Line 75) Maria, Feste, Sir Toby and Sir Andrew are furious with him and want revenge. Maria then thinks up a plan of writing a letter from Olivia (The one he loves) to Malvolio. It consumes of Olivias heart liking Malvolio and instructs him on what to do. Maria: I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most feelingly personated. I can write very like my lady your niece: on a forgotten matter we can hardly make distinction of our hands. Sir Toby: He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop, that they come from my niece, and that shes in love with him. 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