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- ORSINO If music feeds love and makes it stronger, then keep playing music. Give me too much of it, so much that it kills my longing for love and makes it go away.
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ORSINO. If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again, it had a dying fall. 5 O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. Enough, no more.
- Act 1, Scene 2
Actually understand Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 2. Read every...
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Attended by servants, Orsino indulges fully in his...
- Act 1, Scene 2
Similarly, Orsino’s mournful speech in Act I, scene i lets us know that the play will also concern matters of love: emotion, desire, and rejection. Put together, the two scenes suggest the extra twist that is the hallmark of Twelfth Night : mistaken gender identity.
Act 1, scene 5 Quotes. Make me a willow cabin at your gate. And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love. And sing them loud even in the dead of night; Halloo your name to the reverberate hills. And make the babbling gossip of the air.
Speech text. 1. I,1,2. (stage directions). [Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending] Orsino. If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
In this first scene, Duke Orsino delivers a soliloquy ( “If music be the food of love, play on…”) about the all-consuming and fantastical nature of love. A servant, Curio, asks him if...
OPTIONS: Show cue speeches • Show full speeches. #. Act, Scene, Line. (Click to see in context) Speech text. 1. I,1,2. If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, ...