0:03 hello everyone and welcome to the first
0:06 episode of our journey through 12th
0:10 night and we will begin where you would
0:14 expect which is act one scene one and if
0:19 I just get the pointer ready as well so
0:21 here we are
0:23 and you might know a bit about the play
0:25 already I hope you do I'm not going to
0:26 explain a lot of the background but I
0:28 will do some of the context as we go
0:30 through and talk about
0:33 characters and anyway join me on this
0:35 journey enjoy yourselves and I plan to
0:37 enjoy myself as well with this so here
0:42 we go so opening scene we have key
0:46 character here orino Duke of ayria ala
0:49 again a bit of the context is IA was a
0:52 real place it's
0:56 really in real life on the Adriatic
0:58 Coast but really it doesn't really
1:01 matter so much because in Shakespeare's
1:04 time they the general audience weren't
1:06 very worldly wise they didn't have a
1:08 great understanding of geography so
1:10 Shakespeare's just set it somewhere that
1:12 sounds foreign and exotic and
1:15 interesting and it lets him do certain
1:16 things in the play that he wouldn't be
1:18 able to do if he'd set it in
1:22 England so orino we get him here as a
1:24 romantic character he's obsessed with
1:27 love a student of mine years ago put it
1:29 really well and I always just borrow
1:32 this which is the idea of orino is a
1:34 character who's in love with the idea of
1:38 being love being being love he's in love
1:42 with the idea of being in love and he
1:44 doesn't really understand what love is
1:46 at this point in the play but by you the
1:49 time you get to the end he does so we
1:51 have this really famous line and it's
1:55 written in iic P pentam pentameter
1:57 that's that's a completely different
2:00 thing I Amic pentameter
2:03 if music be the food of Love play
2:05 on give me excess of it that surfeiting
2:08 the appetite May sicken and so die he's
2:11 listening to music here the that strain
2:14 again has a dying fall as he's listening
2:15 to the
2:20 music he's really indulging in being sad
2:23 about love almost you know very much
2:27 like a stereotypical Lovick teenager
2:28 almost even though he's older than that
2:30 but he's he's a little bit like that if
2:32 you think of it that way he's it's like
2:35 he's moping around in his bedroom he's
2:38 putting on love songs and and dreaming
2:40 of love and he doesn't really understand
2:43 it at this point say this is Oro so he's
2:46 got this he's got this idea about love
2:49 anyway he's enjoying indulging in this
2:51 music Shakespeare uses nice simile here
2:53 came over my ear like The Sweet Sound
2:55 that breathes upon the bank of violets
2:56 and I haven't highlighted that for some
2:58 reason but that's nice bit of
3:00 personification there as well stealing
3:04 and giving odor and there is a bit of
3:06 antithesis as well stealing and
3:08 giving so he's getting all these what
3:10 Shak is doing is preventing these
3:12 presenting these mixed emotions as he's
3:14 sitting there listening to the music
3:17 indulging in love he's feeling all these
3:19 different mixtures of feelings as he's
3:21 doing it and he's so good word he like
3:23 capricious he's very he's very kind of
3:26 sudden in his decisions he's very
3:30 impulsive enough no more in the music
3:32 he's very
3:35 inconstant is not to not so sweet now as
3:37 it was before Oh Spirit of love how
3:39 quick and fresh thou art that actually
3:41 I'm going to highlight that one as well
3:43 that's a bit of apostrophe there which
3:45 is when you're invoking not apostrophe
3:47 as in what I always call the hovering
3:50 tadpole not the not the punctuation mark
3:52 apostrophe but apostrophe when you
3:56 address other God or the gods as in like
3:58 the ancient gods or the embodiment of something
4:00 something
4:01 and that's apostrophe it's the same
4:04 spelling it's the same spelling how
4:07 quick and fresh Thou Art sorry fresh art
4:09 thou so he's addressing the spirit of
4:11 Love there and then his idea of say it
4:14 goes it comes and goes these feelings of
4:16 love even in a minute oh I just did a
4:19 bit of high I forgot to switch back to the
4:21 the
4:24 pointer such is oro's obsession with
4:26 being in love and thinking about love
4:29 curio who is one of his servants asked
4:31 will you go hunt my Lord now that's a
4:34 standard thing for an aristocrat to do
4:37 he's a jke a high ranking Noble so they
4:40 would go hunting in fact ordinary people
4:41 were banned from going hunting you had
4:44 to be of noble birth to do to hunt particular
4:45 particular
4:48 animals and you go hunt my Lord what
4:50 curio the heart he's not actually even
4:52 listening to curio and when curio says
4:55 the heart so he's thinking about a deer
4:57 why so so I do the noblest that I have
5:00 he's only thinking about pursuing Olivia
5:03 Olivia is the object of his affections
5:05 and we will meet her very soon in act
5:07 one as
5:09 well when mine eyes did meet Olivia
5:11 first always was more pacification there
5:14 well done Shakespeare that me thought
5:16 she purged the air of pestilence that
5:18 instant was I turned into a heart and my
5:20 desires like fell and cruel hounds ever
5:23 since pursue me so Shakespeare is using
5:26 the polysemic the polysemic double
5:30 meaning of the word heart he's using it
5:32 like a phonological pun actually as well
5:33 I mean obviously it's a different
5:35 spelling to it's a different spelling to
5:37 how we spell heart in Shakespeare's time
5:39 they didn't have fixed spellings so it
5:41 wouldn't actually matter how you spell
5:42 heart you could spell it differently as
5:46 long as it sounded right so Shakespeare
5:48 is making a little pun there on the idea
5:51 of heart as in obviously matters of
5:54 romance versus the idea of hunting heart
5:57 and then Shakespeare has oreno his
5:59 obsession with love the idea is is that
6:01 he's saying I I feel like I was a
6:05 pursued heart to myself as in the deer
6:06 my desires like felon cruel hounds ever
6:10 since pursu me so he's got this
6:12 unrequited love for
6:15 Olivia and now we find out a bit more
6:18 why Olivia isn't
6:23 returning oro's overtures of love so
6:26 here is Valentine and again a a word
6:28 associated with romance as
6:31 well what news from her so please my
6:34 Lord I might not be admitted so we find
6:36 out a bit of background about Olivia is
6:38 it but like a Closter she will veiled
6:40 walk and water once a day her chamber
6:42 around with eye offending brine so this is
6:43 is
6:48 actually a metaphor she's crying she's
6:50 grieving she's wearing a veil she's
6:53 walking around she's crying for her dead
6:55 brother and she would keep fresh and
6:57 Lasting in her sad
7:01 remembrance so in Shake spe's time death
7:04 was really everywhere it was that common
7:09 place and there was a socially accepted
7:12 time of grieving but you were expected
7:15 to eventually move on with it you know
7:17 got to move on with your life death is
7:19 all around you it's called you just it's
7:21 just part of life move on don't
7:24 necessarily be heartless about it but to
7:28 to realize that life goes on so Olivia
7:31 is grieving Maybe longer than normally someone
7:32 someone
7:37 would Oro because he is really suffering
7:39 from self- delusion really like he's in
7:40 love with
7:44 Olivia when someone is blindly in love
7:48 logic doesn't actually make any sense
7:51 there's no logic when someone's in love
7:54 or Ceno or Shakespeare presents
7:57 orino as seeing this as a positive
7:59 because he's in love oh that she that
8:01 had a heart of fine frame to pay this
8:03 debt of love but to her brother how will
8:05 she love when the rich golden shaft have
8:07 killed the flock of all affections else
8:09 that Liv in her when liver brain and
8:10 heart these Sovereign Thrones are all
8:12 supplied and filled her sweet
8:14 Perfections with one self King so he
8:17 sees this as saying well if she can show
8:21 this depth of grief for her brother for
8:25 this long time when she's over that that
8:27 means she's got loads of capacity to to
8:30 love me this is really so he sees as a
8:37 effectively away sweet beds of flowers
8:39 love thoughts Li rich and canopy with
8:41 Bowers so now he's he's moved from
8:44 immersing himself in the romance of
8:46 Music Shakespeare then ends the scene
8:48 again rhyming couet here you look with
8:51 IC pentameter as well Oro is now going
8:53 to immerse himself in flowers he's now
8:55 going to sit and think about love but
8:58 surrounded by flowers as well so he's
8:59 very as we said before capricious he's
9:02 moved from one thing to another and
9:04 again he's very delusional and he's
9:07 seeing this this messenger of saying oh
9:08 she's not going to see she's not going
9:11 to admit me to to uh pass on your
9:13 messages of love because she's so much
9:15 in grief for her brother oh brilliant so
9:17 there you go that's Shakespeare
9:20 establishing the main plot of the play
9:22 actually and that is scene one so pretty
9:24 short we will move on to scene two on
9:27 the next one so follow these I'm going
9:29 to be making these as quickly as I can
9:31 and hope you enjoy it see you on the
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