Working with Data from the Shakespeare Concordance:

1. What thematic strands have you located?

tears...water...drowned....drink....drunk....drunkenness…drinken…drinking…tear…

water…saltwater…watery…sea…drowned…drunken…appetite…loud…wine…cup…dancing

…dance…cans…sing…singing…ale

2. Where is the data you retrieved found? What is happening in context when Shakespeare employs this particular theme or image?

3. How does the data you retrieved support your first thoughts on Shakespeare’s obsessive use of a particular image? What can you argue about Shakespeare’s figuration?

Celebration – toby and Andrew are always partying for the 12^th night

He uses the liquidity to portray sadness and the blindness because of tears

Drinking represents a loss of control like the ocean is ever-moving and so big

Alcohol is an escape (12^th night is festivities in which roles are switched and you can become “whatever you want”

4. For a pre-writing exercise: In small groups of two – three, collect 24 – 32 static images relevant to the thematic strand of your group. Meet with your group to decide how the images reflect what the data proves.

Party

Fun

Bars/taverns

Festivities

Celebrations

Ale

Alcohol

Tears

Crying

Depressed

Lost love

Heart broken

EXTRA SOURCES:

Sonnet 119

http://www.pathguy.com/12n.htm

http://www.shmoop.com/twelfth-night/symbolism-imagery.html

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