Twelfth Night Act 1 Scene 5 Summary

The ______ serves a double purpose here.

Olivia invests herself with a touch of the ______, too.

Cesario breaks off his speech and asks which one is the ______ of the house.

Olivia says she will answer for the ______ of the house.

Cesario denies being a comedian, playfully adding, 'I am not that I ______.'

Olivia's identity remains ambiguous until she claims, 'If I do not usurp myself, I ______.'

Olivia assumes that the guest at the gate must be a messenger from _______

Cesario, the visitor, is described as a _______

Feste's wit is different from Toby and Andrew's low comedy due to his _______

Olivia orders Feste to attend to Toby, who is in a worse state due to his habit of excessive _______

Olivia accepts to grant Cesario admission due to his _______

Malvolio describes Viola as not yet a man, but not young enough for a _______

When Feste the ______ joins them, a full-out party has broken out

Feste has a musical instrument — a ______ — with which he accompanies his songs

Andrew asks for a ______ from Feste, and Toby seconds the motion

This play has more ______ than any other of Shakespeare’s plays

It was common practice for the ______ to earn his living from singing and fooling

Toby and Andrew offer to pay Feste for a love ______

Then there is Toby and his partners, who enjoy the pleasures of life; they drink and sing and laugh, stay up late and sleep late. In part, this conflict is a manifestation of the tension between the beginnings of the modern economy — a force that was creating massive social changes in Shakespeare’s England — and the time-honoured English hospitality that had existed for thousands of years. Malvolio embodies the modern emphasis on ______, whereas Toby and his friends represent the old way of life.

Malvolio cannot participate in the festivities or revel in excessive eating and drinking because he cannot help but think of it as a terrible waste of Olivia’s resources — and absurd behaviour from an ______ perspective.

Of course, Malvolio’s stubbornness, cold rationalism, and carefulness seem just as foolish from Toby’s perspective. Life itself is what matters; it is to be experienced, celebrated, and ______.

Malvolio is a killjoy, and the audience, at this point, dislikes him nearly as much as the partygoers in the play do. Maria shouts after him to shake his ears, and Andrew suggests challenging him to a ______.

Toby says that he will write and deliver the challenge to Malvolio himself. But Maria has a better idea. Maria has a plan to embarrass Malvolio and make his name forever after synonymous with ―laughingstock.‖ Maria suggests that Malvolio is a kind of ______.

Life itself is what matters; it is to be experienced, celebrated, and savoured. Malvolio is a killjoy, and the audience, at this point, dislikes him nearly as much as the partygoers in the play do. Maria shouts after him to shake his ears, and Andrew suggests challenging him to a duel. Toby says that he will write and deliver the challenge to Malvolio himself. But Maria has a better idea. Maria has a plan to embarrass Malvolio and make his name forever after synonymous with ―laughingstock.‖ Maria suggests that Malvolio is a kind of ______.

Andrew's confused reaction to Cesario's French is followed by Sir Toby's 'taste your legs' racing ______ comment

As Feste says, 'words have grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.' Yet if we compare this exchange with Cesario and Feste's earlier exchange in this scene, in which both participants do understand each other, we notice again that language is not to be blamed for people's failure to ______ with each other.

Cesario greets Olivia with what seems a parody of a courtly poetical expression — at least to Sir Andrew, who notices the unsavoury connotations of the words, 'rain odours' and 'pregnant,' and files these phrases (which he ______) away in his memory for later use.

Thoroughly impressed by such nonsense, this aside explains much about Andrew's manner of ______. No doubt he learned his French as well as his mastery of dance in a similar fashion; he steals the scraps of other people's knowledge and talents.

And when he attempts to recycle them, he does so in an inane and foolish ______. Yet Andrew's interjections do serve (however unintentionally) a function in the play by pointing out that Cesario's language has become increasingly strained when talking to Olivia.

Both instances of lack of understanding demonstrate the failure of language to act as a medium for ______. As Feste says, 'words have grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.'