Orsino

• ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ (Orsino)
• Extended metaphor of food/appetite Act 1 Scene 1

  ’food’, ‘appetite may sicken’, ‘sweet’, ‘fresh’
• ‘Methought she purged the air of pestilence‘ (Orsino)
• ‘That instant was I turned into a hart,/ And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,/ E’er since pursue me’ (Orsino)
• ‘To pay this debt of love but to a brother’ (Orsino)
• ‘Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds, rather than make unprofited return’ (Orsino)
• ‘Diana’s lip is not more smooth and rubious’ (Orsino)
• ‘Women are as roses, whose fair flower being once displayed, doth fall that very hour’ (Orsino)
• ‘There is no woman’s heart so big to hold so much…their love may be called appetite’ (Orsino)
• ‘Thy mind is a very opal’ (Feste)
• ‘I’ll sacrifice the lamb I do love/To spite a raven’s heart within a dove’ (Orsino)
• ‘Let me see thee in thy women’s weeds’ (Orsino)
• ’One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons!’ (Orsino, Act 5 Scene 1)

  • anaphora
  • comic confusion