Shakespeare’s Use of Disguise in The Twelfth Night

Use of Disguise in "The Twelfth Night":

Shakespeare was master-craftsman who has displayed great skill in the technique of the use of disguise. We find his mastery over this technique in The Merchant of Venice, As you Like It and The Twelfth Night. In The Twelfth Night Viola is the only character who assumes a disguise and her disguise affects all the other characters in the play profoundly. Her disguise is the real moving force of the main plot of this play.

Critically Comment on Twelfth Night as a Romantic Comedy.

"Twelfth Night" as a Romantic Comedy:

A Shakespearean comedy is a romantic comedy- a combination of romance and comedy. Shakespeare’s comedies have certain features in common. His comedy aims at sheer joy and pleasure. He wrote tragedies because it was his taste but he wrote comedies to relieve his mind from heaviness. Hence, the romantic atmosphere of his comedies.

Comment on the Trail Scene in "The Merchant of Venice"?

Trail scene in The Merchant of Venice

The Trail scene in The Merchant of Venice is one of the greatest scenes in the whole range of Shakespearean drama. Here Shylock  who first seems to have succeeded in his revengeful desire for a pound of Antonio’s flesh to be cut off from his bosom, is subsequently thwarted  in his purpose by the sagacity of Portia’s who is a woman disguised as  a man.

The Merchant of Venice is a Comedy of Incidents and not of Characters.

The Merchant of Venice is a Comedy of Incidents

The plot of The Merchant of Venice is a highly elaborate one. The play does not have a single plot. The main plot of the play is the Bond story and the sub plots here are the story of the caskets and the Lorenzo Jessica love affair; here we have also an under plot namely the story of the rings. With a great skill Shakespeare has woven together these various stories into a coherent whole.

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Shakespeare's Characterization of Shylock

Shylock is one of the notorious characters in the entire range of Shakespearean drama. He represents a mixture of several traits of character who arouses different feelings in us at different times. He cannot simply be classified as tragic figure or as a villain or as a comic character.