dependent upon the Fool?’ In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, we are presented with various characters and plots which supply the play with comedic elements due to the role they play. The comedy of Twelfth Night is predominantly stemmed from the ‘foolish’ characters and the scenarios they are involved in. Write here about traditional definition of fool etc. Almost every character in Twelfth Night is portrayed as a fool in some sense, and there are two main categories of fools, the ‘Natural Fool’ and the ‘Artificial
Shakespeare. These debates happen through long in depth essays about specific aspects of individual plays. They can be hard to read and even harder to finish, but for some reason when I looked at the essays; Rethinking Sexuality and Class in Twelfth Night; and The Serious Comedy of Twelfth Night: Dark Didacticism in Illyria, by Nancy Lindheim and Lisa Marciano respectively, I knew I had to write my own short essay explaining my belief that Twelfth Night is not serious at all, and that Shakespeare’s use
Twelfth Night and the features of Shakespeare’s comedy This essay will discuss two main features appearing in the selected scenes in Twelfth Night, respectively the fool and the mistaken identity. The first part of the analysis will consider the division of the fool and its contribution to the comic effect. The second part will consider the mistaken identity and how it influences the comedy. ‘Fool’ is one of the important elements in Shakespeare’s comedy, creating comic effects. From act 3 scene