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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with CSEC®
Study Guide and Modern English
Translation
Author: Sherice Blair
Develop knowledge of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night through detailed notes
and glossaries which reinforce the text and fully prepare students for the
CSEC® English B examination.
• Build a contextual understanding of the play and era through a range of
carefully selected modern English translations.
• Check comprehension with end-of-chapter guided reading questions and
‘Think About It’ activities that also demonstrate plot development.
• Strengthen analysis skills with detailed study notes on characters, themes
and stylistic devices running throughout.
• Improve and practise essay-writing skills using a toolkit of CSEC®-style
questions and a sample essay.
• Consolidate learning and exam preparation with detailed and rigorous
study notes.
£10.50 • Student’s Book • 9781398375185
Build a contextual understanding of the play and
era through a range of carefully selected modern
English translations.
Improve and practise essay-writing skills
using a toolkit of CSEC®-style questions
and a sample essay.
Act 1 Scene 1
An Apartment in the Duke’s Palace.
Enter Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords; Musicians attending.
Original playscript
Modern English Translation
ORSINO: If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.
That strain again, it had a dying fall;
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour. Enough; no more;
’Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou,
That notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soever,
But falls into abatement and low price
Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy,
That it alone is high fantastical.
ORSINO: If music really makes people feel
more in love, then keep playing. Play so much
that I will grow weary of it and love no more.
Play that part again, it was sad. Oh, it sounded
like a gentle breeze over a bank of violets,
stealing their fragrance. No more music. Stop.
It is not as pleasing as it was. Oh, love is like
a restless sea. Nothing is safe from you. Once
something falls in, it sinks and loses value
immediately! Love is a fantastical illusion.
CURIO: Will you go hunt, my lord?
CURIO: Do you want to go hunting, my lord?
ORSINO: What, Curio?
ORSINO: Hunting what, Curio?
CURIO: The hart.
CURIO: The hart.
ORSINO: Why so I do, the noblest that I have.
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purg’d the air of pestilence;
That instant was I turn’d into a hart,
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E’er since pursue me. How now? What news
from her?
ORSINO: I am already hunting a hart—only it’s
my heart that’s being hunted. Oh, when I first
saw Olivia, her very presence purified the air. In
that moment I was transformed into a hart, and
my desire for her has hunted me like a pack of
savage dogs. What’s going on? Have you heard
from her?
Essay writing guide – improving the essay
There is only one task in this section; to do it well, you will need to break it into
several parts.
Task
In your literature circle or individually, write an essay based on the same question.
Parts
Decoding
Planning
Writing
1 first draft
2 editing
3 final version
Decoding the essay question
In the play, Twelfth Night, Malvolio says, ‘Some are born great, some achieve
greatness and some have greatness thrust upon ’em’.
Write an essay in which you describe two instances in which Malvolio aspires
for greatness. You must also discuss the impact one character has on Malvolio in
one of these instances and examine one dramatic technique Shakespeare uses to
portray ambition in the play.
[35 marks]
hart an adult male deer
It is typical practice to start the CSEC English B essay question with an introductory
statement, usually from the play. Use this statement to gauge what the question
is about, what theme is being queried. That way you can decide your stance in the
introduction as well as the arguments/points that will build your essay.
In the play, Twelfth Night, Malvolio says, ‘Some are born great, some achieve
greatness and some have greatness thrust upon ’em’.
For this question, the introductory statement is from Act 2, Scene 5. As part of
decoding the question, you need to consider the circumstances, why and to whom
Malvolio utters these words. This will help you to analyse the relevance of the
words to the overall play, and the theme and characters to which they are linked.
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