I found it interesting that Twelfth Night seems to have an extensive amount of theatricality to it that purposefully breaks the feeling of “reality” and the fourth wall. Besides the multiple gender layering that happens with male boy actor/ Viola/Cesario, I’m noticing a self-awareness in the text that continually points out its artifice as theatre. For example, in Act I, Scene 5 with Viola and Olivia’s first meeting, Viola/Cesario continually addresses the art of acting one’s “part” or role. All of the characters seem to be literally performing roles at one point or another — Viola must act to persuade Olivia, Olivia throws a veil over her face to perform her grieving, and so on.