Overall Questions
 

1. What are the sources of humor in Twelfth Night?
2. Analyze Twelfth Night according to the definitions you have of "comedy."
3. How do the sources of humor compare with those you noticed in other plays by Shakespeare?  In Lysistrata?
4. How did the film version differ from the written play?  Do you agree with the production decisions made by the director?  Explain.
5. Why does Viola dress up as a boy?  (That is, why not just present herself to the Duke or Countess and ask for help?)
6. What aspects of Malvolio are stereotypically Puritan?  What does Malvolio do to incur the displeasure of Sir Toby, Maria, Sir Andrew, and Feste?
7. Analyze the practical joke these characters play on Malvolio.  Why does it work?  Did you find it funnier when you read it in the book, or when you saw it enacted in the film?