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shakespeare
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- ENGL230A (ENGL230A)
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- University Of Nebraska - Lincoln
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7 February 2023Twelfth Night:
❖ Human tradition
➢ Set aside some time/day of the year to “break” the rules about gender roles, sexuality,
drinking, etc.
➢ Slaves and servants were allowed to ridicule and joke about their masters
➢ Feasting
➢ Drunkenness
❖ Festivals to honor Dionysus (god of wine)
❖ Europe Midsummer events (Sweden)
❖ Move to America on fat Tuesday and carnival
❖ Weird Christian holidays come into the mix
❖ Halloween comes from the Catholic, Roman, and Celtic holidays
What does it have to do with Shakespeare?
❖ All ties in with Christmas Tide
➢ Ended on what was called Twelfth Night
➢ No record of the play actually being performed on the Twelfth Night
■ More references to Christmas
■ Servant who imagines himself as a nobleman
❖ Church
➢ Issues with money, etc.
➢ Reformers wanted to purify it
➢ No Paganism
➢ Starts at beginning of the 16th century
❖ Religious revolution
➢ Conversion of Europe to Christianity
➢ Monasteries destroyed
➢ Monks and nuns encouraged to marry
❖ This revolution came very slowly to England and came on in a strange way
➢ No thought that England would ever be aside from Catholic
■ Henry VIII
■ The church of England
■ Protestantism
■ Would gladly execute people who don’t acknowledge him
■ Ransacks monasteries to fund war
■ Edward VI was assigned the throne but was only 9 (Jane Seymor’s son)
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