Referring To “Twelfth Night” Discuss How Shakespeare Presents Love In Such Variety

... Referring To "Twelfth Night" Discuss How Shakespeare Presents Love In Such Variety Throughout Twelfth Night, love is the major theme along with disguise. Shakespeare shows that love comes in many varieties. The two main ones are courtly love and romantic love. Courtly love was very popular in Shakespearean times; this was where a man would choose a woman, who was often way above him in status, and then he would lavish all of his attention on her until she gave in and agreed to become involved with him. Very often, he would have been rejected but that was part of the ritual. Romantic love was all based on physical attraction between one person and another. Orsino's love for Olivia is more spiritual, and there is not any physical interaction between them; Orsino sends Cesario to Olivia to tell her of his love. He loves her from a distance, through Cesario, we

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