0:03 hello and welcome to part two of our
0:06 exploration of 12th night didn't mention
0:07 before on the last video about the
0:09 alternati of what you will that's
0:11 interesting in terms of you can link
0:14 this to ideas about identity as in like
0:17 what you will what you define yourself
0:22 to be actually is important in the play
0:25 and I'll say more about 12th night as a
0:27 festival when it actually reaches more relevant
0:28 relevant
0:31 points I really play but you might know
0:33 all this anyway but anyway I will talk
0:36 about it so we're going to act one scene
0:39 two I'll talk about it a bit later so
0:40 we've had Oro in the first scene we've
0:42 seen how he's in love with the idea of
0:44 being in love we've known that he's
0:47 obsessed with
0:50 Olivia and now introduced to another
0:52 main character which is Viola notably of
0:55 course first scene talking about music
0:57 we had musicians there's are lots of
1:00 music in this play and VI of course is
1:02 the name of a musical instrument can't
1:05 be a coincidence also in the first scene
1:07 notice of course orena was talking about
1:10 violets he was personifying violets and
1:12 now we've got a character called Violet
1:16 with a very similar name so keep an eye
1:19 on all of this lots of things going on
1:22 then VI is also a partial anagram of
1:25 Olivia as well you see lots of stuff
1:27 going on no words or even letters wasted
1:29 when it comes to Shakespeare so we've
1:33 got got Violet a captain and
1:35 sailors what country friends is this so
1:38 Shakespeare always uses media res
1:41 starting We join him halfway through a
1:43 SE as he he starts a scene things have
1:46 already happened before it in this case
1:47 there been a shipwreck that's quite a
1:49 big thing for us to miss but it would
1:50 have been very hard for Shakespeare to
1:53 Stage a shipwreck realistically uh on
1:55 with the technology and Stage craft of
1:59 the time so we said about lyria there as
2:01 well what country friend is this so
2:02 she's washed
2:06 up after a shipwreck my brother he is an
2:08 elisian per chance he is not
2:11 drowned so shakesby deliberately
2:13 parallels the situation with Olivia as
2:15 well remember Olivia has lost her
2:17 brother brother and she's
2:19 grieving violer has lost her brother but
2:22 you'll see as a character she's much
2:26 more decisive she's much more in
2:30 control yeah you will see
2:34 and violet is given these interrogatives
2:37 she's very much in control in command
2:39 here she's of a higher Social Status
2:43 than the men that she's with of course
2:44 in Shakespeare's time female characters
2:49 were played by male male actors but this
2:52 was just a standard thing of the time
2:53 that was just something that was a
2:56 cultural Convention of the era women
3:00 weren't allowed to act in that era
3:01 It Is by chance that you yourself were
3:03 saved oh my poor brother and so by
3:04 chance may he be so there's an element
3:07 of Hope there maybe he's not dead so she
3:10 has lost a brother he might be drowned
3:11 he might be dead but she's clinging on
3:13 to some hope so there's an interesting
3:17 again Shakespeare's paralleling the viol
3:20 situation with Olivia
3:22 situation Captain offers a glimmer of
3:24 hope as well I saw your brother so
3:26 during the storm and the ship being
3:28 smashed apart most Provident and Peril
3:30 bind himself courage hope both teaching
3:32 him to the practice sorry teaching him
3:34 the practice to a strong MK that lived
3:36 upon the sea so as the ship was breaking
3:38 up he tied himself to a m and then
3:40 there's a nice simile here like Orion on
3:42 the Dolphin's back I saw him hold
3:43 acquaintance with the waves as long as I
3:46 could see so he may have
3:48 survived VI's pleased with this so she
3:50 gives him a bit of gives him a bit of
3:54 Dosh gives him some
3:57 money then with VI's uncertainty about
4:00 the area we' got the captain as a car
4:03 who does know the area it allows
4:05 Shakespeare to offer some Exposition
4:07 very naturally so the audience have an
4:10 idea of what the social situation is in this
4:12 this
4:15 country so who comes here a Noble jke in
4:17 nature has in his name what's it his
4:20 name osino and actually again we've
4:22 already met osino so the jigsaw puzzle
4:24 is really forming for us here
4:27 Shakespeare is building up the plot a
4:29 lot of the audience of Shakespeare's
4:30 time would have been familiar with the
4:32 plot of the play they would know the
4:35 story about the twins who get separated
4:37 and they know they know about the
4:39 disguise elements of this plot I don't
4:40 want to spoil too much in case you don't
4:44 know it but I will say a little bit but
4:46 anyway there's that is that element to
4:47 it there as well some of the audience
4:48 would have known the story already
4:50 because again that was something that
4:52 was normal of the time playwrights
4:55 didn't really come up with their own
4:57 totally unique original ideas they
4:59 normally adapted something that was
5:01 either histor Rec an existing story or
5:03 somebody else's story they did sometimes
5:06 make extra stuff up of this and in 12th
5:09 night Shakespeare made up extra elements
5:11 to this story so they're not it's not
5:14 really like plagiarism or ripping things
5:15 off or anything like that it was just
5:17 what people did in that era that was just
5:19 just
5:22 normal so any back to the world of the
5:24 play and violet there's a sense of hope
5:27 there so she giving the captain some bit
5:30 of money as a as a gratitude
5:32 heard about osino there as well I heard
5:34 my father Nam me he was a bachelor then
5:36 so this is the same osino we seen in the
5:39 first scene and there's a little bit of
5:40 I just highlighted that because there's
5:42 a bit of antithesis there great ones do
5:44 the less will prattle of he just means
5:47 gossip ordinary people will gossip about
5:49 celebrities effectively same as in the
5:51 present time so just normal people are
5:53 obsessed with celebrities same then as
5:56 it is now so it's just a I thought as a nice
5:57 nice
5:59 little observation from Shakespeare
6:01 that's a little throwaway line but I
6:03 thought well it connects to the modern
6:04 world in many
6:08 ways so we get Shakespeare reiterating
6:11 through the captain some of the ideas
6:13 that we saw remember when orino was
6:16 overjoyed to think of Olivia grieving
6:17 for her brother and seeing that as an
6:20 opportunity of love we're getting a
6:23 repetition here of just reemphasizing
6:26 that particular piece of character
6:30 context we know that
6:32 Olivia is not admitting anyone that
6:34 orena is sending
6:37 over and VI again she's depicted by
6:41 Shakespeare is a very Noble decisive and
6:43 actually courageous character as well as
6:46 a female character she's very
6:48 interesting particularly for the era and
6:51 mean in Shakespeare's time obviously
6:55 women women's rights were were very
6:57 limited very very limited but
7:00 paradoxically of course you've got
7:04 Elizabeth I on the throne who is
7:06 effectively really like a tyrant
7:09 actually like a really ruthless decisive
7:13 leader who if you displeased her your
7:15 head was probably coming off so you got
7:19 a very strange Paradox paradoxical world where
7:20 where
7:22 obviously you've got us the wider
7:26 Society must have recognized that women
7:28 could hold positions of power because
7:31 they had one right at the top so
7:34 anyway Vier is is reflecting in some
7:37 ways those kind
7:41 of Elizabethan attitudes there
7:44 anyway so VI there is their behavior in
7:45 the captain and though that nature with
7:48 a butus WS doth off close in pollution
7:50 yet Of Thee I will believe thou Hast a
7:51 mind that suits with this thy fair and
7:54 outward character this seems a bit weird
7:56 this line but it actually makes sense in
7:58 The Wider context of the play because
8:00 the play has a lot about themes about
8:02 appearance versus
8:05 reality what happens there is you've got
8:07 Shakespeare's having Viola showing
8:10 her one thing he's doing is showing her
8:12 perception like she knows this Captain
8:13 is a trustworthy
8:17 guy the other thing is that it's
8:20 important to say as well is the idea of
8:23 she so sometimes people might look
8:24 sometimes people might look good but
8:26 they might actually be bad and in this
8:28 case this isn't the case you so you look
8:30 you you look like a nice person and
8:31 you're acting like a nice person and you
8:33 are a nice
8:36 person and that's also important because
8:37 he's going to help keep her secret which
8:40 is's just about to do right here which
8:42 is I'll pay thee bounous conceal me what
8:45 I am so this links back to what I said
8:46 right at the start about the alternate
8:48 title of the play 12th night or what you
8:53 will Viet Wills herself into this new
8:55 identity she's going to disguise herself
8:57 as a
9:00 man I'll serve this Duke as a woman on
9:03 her own she's in danger she's very
9:07 vulnerable in a in a strange country we
9:09 actually find out later in the play
9:12 there has been some historical tension
9:13 it doesn't the play doesn't go into
9:16 massive detail about this but viers from
9:19 a place called mesine Another Country
9:21 and there seems to have been some
9:23 tensions in the past between ayia and
9:26 mesoline and it's not necessarily going
9:29 to be safe for her just wandering around
9:32 as a woman from mesoline and it's yeah
9:33 she's in danger so she's going to
9:35 disguise herself as a man I'll serve
9:37 this Duke Thou shalt present me as an
9:39 unic to him I have to be careful how I
9:42 talk about this because of YouTube rules
9:45 but yeah a unic uh yeah be careful how
9:47 you're looking it up is what what I'll
9:49 say but unic is how can I put this
9:54 gently a a man who's had certain
9:58 Key Parts physical parts of being a man removed
10:00 removed
10:04 and this is in modern Productions They
10:05 Don't Really dwell on this line I've
10:07 seen some where they've actually cut out
10:10 that line actually because it just seems
10:11 a bit jarring and a lot of people don't
10:14 really know what a unic
10:17 is and what shakes was doing is it would
10:20 explain the feminine qualities or at
10:23 least the less masculine qualities of
10:27 V's new male
10:29 identity so it would explain the like
10:30 the differences in the voice why the
10:32 voice would be higher
10:34 pitched it may be worth thy pains for I
10:36 can sing and speak to him in many sorts
10:39 of music that allow me very worth his
10:42 service so yeah a lot of I have see yeah
10:43 of them cut that line out when I think
10:45 about it
10:47 anyway the captain is be you is unic and
10:50 your mute RB so this Captain actually
10:52 he's not in it again he gets mentioned
10:55 later on in the play but the idea is is
10:56 that VI is going to adopt a new identity
10:58 he'll adopt a new identity as in he's
11:00 going to be secret a mute is someone who
11:02 doesn't ever say anything he's not going
11:05 to give anything away about VI's
11:08 plans when my tongue blabs then let mine
11:10 eyes not see I thank me I thank thee
11:13 lead me on so VI again end Shakespeare
11:16 ending the SE Violet is she's got a plan
11:18 she's decisive Captain's going to keep a
11:20 secret and presumably the other Sailors
11:23 as well they don't get any cash for it
11:25 but let's just assume they just do as
11:28 the captain tells them and that's it so
11:29 that is the end of scene two another
11:31 short little scene thank you for joining
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