Humour in Twelfth Night
Humour can take many forms. It can be savage silly, uproarious or just an undertone. Discuss with detailed reference to your play.Twelfth Night was written by William Shakespeare around 1600 as the last of his three "mature comedies" (the other two being Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It). Like his early comedies, Twelfth Night is essentially a celebration of romantic love and can be seen 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. Like other representatives of the genre, Twelfth Night also features a sub-plot in which a self-inflated character, the steward Malvolio, is brought to his knees through a trick set up by the cunning Maria and drunkard, Sir Toby Belch. The humour in Twelfth Night is undertone. It is not uproariously funny but it consists of many other aspects of humour that the characters are not always aware of. The humour is aimed at the ludicrous and not the ridiculous. It makes us laugh at the follies
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