Q1 Explore the Significance of the Aspects of Dramatic Comedy in the Following Passage In

Q1 Explore the significance of the aspects of dramatic comedy in the following passage in relation to the play as a whole.

You should consider the following in your answer:

 the presentation Malvolio  the use of deceit  other relevant aspects of dramatic comedy.

MARIA Get ye all three into the box-tree: Malvolio's coming down this walk: he has been yonder i' the sun practising behavior to his own shadow this half hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of him. Close, in the name of jesting! Lie thou there, Throws down a letter for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling. Exit Enter MALVOLIO MALVOLIO 'Tis but fortune; all is fortune. Maria once told me she did affect me: and I have heard herself come thus near, that, should she fancy, it should be one of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more exalted respect than any one else that follows her. What should I think on't? SIR TOBY BELCH Here's an overweening rogue! FABIAN O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes! SIR ANDREW 'Slight, I could so beat the rogue! SIR TOBY BELCH Peace, I say. MALVOLIO To be Count Malvolio! SIR TOBY BELCH Ah, rogue! SIR ANDREW Pistol him, pistol him. SIR TOBY BELCH Peace, peace!

Q2 Explore the significance of the aspects of dramatic comedy in the following passage in relation to the play as a whole. You should consider the following in your answer:

 the presentation the Clown (Feste)  the use of disguise  other relevant aspects of dramatic comedy.

MALVOLIO [Within] Who calls there? Clown Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio the lunatic. MALVOLIO Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady. Clown Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man! talkest thou nothing but of ladies? SIR TOBY BELCH Well said, Master Parson. MALVOLIO Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged: good Sir Topas, do not think I am mad: they have laid me here in hideous darkness. Clown Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark? MALVOLIO As hell, Sir Topas. Clown Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction? MALVOLIO I am not mad, Sir Topas: I say to you, this house is dark.