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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night "Twelfth Night is a comedy of light and shade. Its characters
are not unreservedly happy and the events are not unreservedly humorous."
Discuss. As a comedy, Twelfth Night is obviously intending to not only
entertain its audience but also point out problems in society. It is imperative to
entire merit of the play not to be realistic but to allow for empathy. Therefor
to have a comedy of complete lightheartedness there would be no balance
and hence no avenue for audience interaction. Without light we would have
no darkness and for this reason Shakespeare has had to incorporate tragedy
in order for the comedy to have it's desired effect. The two in juxtaposition
accentuate each other. The characters of Twelfth Night are neither bluntly
humorous nor artlessly tragic. Twelfth Night like all Shakespearean comedies
is largely about social concerns. The social......


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