Love

• 'Viola is the only character that actually attains her initial objective (romantically) 


  Hewlett, 1907
• 'Orsino's spirit of love, seems to dominate him'

  Salingar, 1958
• 'his views on women are generalised and inconsistant' 


  Maslen, 2006

  On Orsino, belief women are 'incapable of loving with an equal force to men'.
• If music be the food of love play on


  Orsinos melodramatic and all consuming ideal o love
• She never told her love but let concealment like a worm in the bud feed on her damask cheek


  Viola describing secret love
• even so quickly may one catch the plague? 


  olivia
• love sought is good but given unsought is better


  Olivia
• women are roses whose fair flower doth fall that very hour


  orsino
• Love in Twelfth Night is not a stable or moral force


  Frye