Twelth_Night_Act_3

Twelth Night Act 3 Act three opens at the garden adjoining Olivia’s house. This garden is where lines 1 – 100 will occur. Often times the garden is portrayed onstage as a courtyard with real plants, a backdrop, or a combination of both. Several columns are usually added to Olivia’s house and the courtyard in order to add a Mediterranean atmosphere to Shakespeare’s Illyria. Twelfth Night takes place in Duke Orsino’s court, Olivia’s house, Olivia’s garden, and to a much lesser extent on a street and beach of Illyria. This allows for the production to have fairly elaborate scenery, because the set changes are simple and far enough apart to accommodate the minor adjustments that transform Olivia’s house into Orsino’s domicile. A play on gender and sexuality is the main action of Twelfth Night; however this scene focuses on the importance and duality of words. The primary action of act three, scene one occurs in the dialogue. What ensues is a brilliant example of Shakespeare’s mastery of the English language. Instead of the physical fighting found in Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet, Shakespeare creates a playful bandying of words and wit. The result of which adds viola, olivia, sir, scene, olivia’s, andrew, feste, house, garden, plot, orsino, one, main, love, dialogue, because, action, words, twelfth, true, orsino’s, now, night, loves, just, hurt, french, fool, audience, about, wit, viola’s, viola/cesario, shakespeare’s, playful