Their homes are quite different from each other and both have servants. Orsino, the ruler of Illyria, has time to listen to music and think about love.
Olivia is in mourning for the loss of her father and brother which has an impact on her household. Viola chooses to dress as a young man in order to get work, suggesting this wouldn't be easy for a woman in Illyria or that it would give her more freedom. We use cookies on this website. By using this site you agree that we may store and access cookies on your device.
Find out more about how we use cookies and your options to change your acceptance of cookies. However, people still continued to use the name Illyria as a general reference point for the region.
For Shakespeare, choosing this setting served a number of purposes. The answer is, as an unknown stranger, she can really do whatever she wants, propelling the fantastical plot.
Shakespeare weaves together real and invented place references in the play. Viola and Sebastian refer to their homeland as Messaline. Some scholars have suggested that Messaline is meant to correspond to either Mytilene, in Greece or Messina, in Italy, which would reinforce a more familiar Mediterranean context for the play. However, other references hint at a decidedly un-Mediterranean locale.
Illyria was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula. Ilaria is an Italian name that means cheerful, from which I like to think Illyria can mean the same. From an descendant of Ilyrians. It means from the stars. Salona near modern Split in Croatia functioned as its capital. William Shakespeare also featured most of his plays in Italy , as it was a foreign country which provided a great foreign backdrop for them.
He believed that this would make the plays more exotic hence help the audience to fully understand the true story behind them. Twelfth Night is set in in Illyria, a real place from classical antiquity, that existed as far back as the tenth century B. During Shakespeare's time , the area, off the Adriatic Sea, was controlled by the Venetian republic. Today, Illyria makes up modern-day Croatia. The history of Illyrian warfare and weaponry spanned from around the 10th century BC up to the 1st century AD in the region defined by the Ancient Greek and Roman historians as Illyria.
Antonio eventually ends up receiving confirmation of Sebastian's affection for him. However, Antonio is also conspicuously left alone at the end of the play, when almost everyone pairs off. He drops out of the main action without any clear resolution or statement as to what his fate will be. Where is the Twelfth Night set? Category: books and literature fiction. When Should decorations be taken down? Why is Twelfth Night important?
Why does Viola dress as a man?
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