Having selected Shakespeare as my author, I have collated my research from his comic works, primarily Twelfth Night.
CHARACTERS
- Feste (court fool/ speaker of moral truths)
- Sir Andrew Aguecheek (secondary character who enjoys revelry, is rarely sober)
- Malvolio (manipulated and ridiculed by unrequited love)
- Viola/Cesario & Sebastian (central twin protagonists who cause confusion and transgression)
- Sir Toby Belch (Lord of Misrule/ conductor of revelry)
LOCATIONS
- Sea/ stormy sea coast (where confusion begins/ liminality)
- Forest (walk between more concrete locations - spot for mischief)
- Illyria GREEN WORLD (removed from ideological codes/ appropriates actions of characters)
- Court (grounding of rule and societal norm)
- Topsy-turvy world (absolute revelry/ saturation of comedy)
MOTIFS
- Cross-garters (humiliating costume/ product of mischief)
- Disguise (justifies revelry/ establishes false personas)
- Twinning (visual parallels/ confusion)
- Carnivalesque (drunkenness/ revelry)
- Unrequited love (emasculation of main male characters)
QUOTES
- 'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit'
- 'I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings'
- 'Words are very rascals"
- 'I was seeking a fool when I found you'
- 'That quaffing and drinking will undo you'
ALTERNATIVE INFO
- Shakespeare wrote didactic comedies of moral purpose
- Shakespeare's comedies conform to Heywood's structure 'Turbulenta Prima, Tranquila Ultima'
- Intent to release his audience for the social codes an ideological constraints of Elizabethan/ Jacobean society
- Acknowledged by Ben Jonson as 'the wonder of our stage'
- His content is described by Harold Bloom as 'fundamental perceptions'
VISUALS SHOULD BE:
Humorous/ Playfull/ Mischievous tone of voice/ Farce & Mishaps
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