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Discuss the ways in which Shakespeare explores the theme of love throughout 'Twelfth Night'.
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Priya Pillai Discuss the ways in which Shakespeare explores the theme of love throughout 'Twelfth Night' In the play 'Twelfth Night' Shakespeare explores and illustrates the emotion of love with precise detail. Throughout the play Shakespeare examines three different types of love, which are, true love, self-love and platonic love. 'Twelfth Night' is a romantic comedy, and romantic love is the play's main theme. In order to comply with the comical genre, Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to entertain the audience. The play consists of many love triangles, however many of the characters that are tangled up in the web of love are blind to see that their emotions and feelings towards other characters are untrue. They are consequently deceiving themselves and others around them. Count Orsino opens the play with a speech beginning; 'If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, That appetite...
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