The Character of Emilia in Othello Emilia is one of the few straightforward people in the Shakespeare's Othello. Emilia is taciturn. When we first meet her in Cyprus, after his throwaway condescending remark about suffering her tongue, and Desdemona's rejoinder that "she has no speech", Iago has to admit that "she puts her tongue a little in her heart and chides with thinking". In the scene of light hearted banter that follows Emilia manages to utter two words. She really only finds her voice
As the handmaiden of Olivia, Maria is considered today to play a relatively minor role in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, but despite her minor role, Maria is the driving piece in the subplot to trick Malvolio by writing a letter in her lady’s script, and she is, at the end of the play, married to Olivia’s cousin Sir Toby. Maria is typically interpreted as being “feisty, witty, and outgoing” (Marshall 217), but some would argue that this is not her personality in Trevor Nunn’s rendition of Twelfth
of my life. Bibliography: Bibliography 1. Gustav Holst. By Imogen Holst. Oxford University Press (1938, rev. 1969). 2. Gustav Holst, The Man and His Music. By Michael Short. Oxford University Press (1990). 3. A Scrapbook for the Holst Birthplace Museum. Compiled by Imogen Holst. 4. Greene, Richard. Holst, The Planets. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 5. Holst, Imogen. The music of Gustav Holst. London, Oxford U.P., 1968. 6. http://www
She's the Man is a lovely and hilarious comedy filmed in the United States. It was directed in 2002 by Andy Fickman and is based on the play the twelfth night written and composed by William Shakespeare. In the DVD She's the Man the main character, Viola Hastings, disguises herself as a man and takes her brother's place in the boys' soccer team. Her intentions are to prove that girls are capable of doing what boys do and in a way she succeeds to do just that. From Shakespeare (8) the book twelfth
Shakespeare, William, and Sylvan Barnet. The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare. General Editor: Sylvan Barnet. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Print. Twelfth Night. Dir. Trevor Nunn. Perf. Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant and Imogen Stubbs. Fine Line Features, 1996. Videocassette.