'Good comedies always touch on troubling themes and envisage darker ends than are finally delivered.' To what extent is this true of Twelfth Night? It would be hard to argue that the central theme of Twelfth Night is not simply love and its fulfilment and to subsequently view the play as a set of comic capers which lead to this, or simply 'a ripe love comedy with a happy ending'#. The reader/audience is …showed first 75 words of 1546 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1546 total…Shakespeare instructed, make of Twelfth Night 'what you will'. BIBLIOGRAPHY Alexander, Michael, A History Of English Literature (Hampshire: Palgrove Macmillan, 2000) Armstrong, Philip, Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (New York: Routledge 2001) Shakespeare, William, A Midsummer Night's Dream, ed. Harold F. Brocks (London: Meuthen & Co Ltd 1979) Shakespeare, William, Twelfth Night, ed Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson (Cambridge: CUP, 1930) Summers, Joeseph, The Masks Of Twelfth Night in LF Dean (ed), Shakespeare Modern Essays In Criticism (Oxford: OUP, 1967)