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"An Exploration of Humour in Twelfth Night".  

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Daniel Serrage U5N Monday 29^th September "An Exploration of Humour in Twelfth Night" While reading "Twelfth Night", I realised that the audience would notice that there are many aspects of humour evident. Someone might think or argue that this theme is much more present "Twelfth Night" than other play's written by William Shakespeare, such as "Romeo and Juliet" the theme is that of a forbidden love. In a lot of Shakespeare's play's they seem to move from chaos at the start of the play to harmony at the end of the play, "Twelfth Night" also follows this pattern, to a contemporary audience they may find it quite funny, but to a 21^st century audience they would just see this as a pattern. Humour, appears in different forms both in real life and in "Twelfth Night". Sometimes it is in the form of verbal humour, sometimes visual and other times...

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