{"id":191,"date":"2017-02-27T10:58:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=191"},"modified":"2017-02-27T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:58:52","slug":"theme-of-sonnets-in-twelfth-night-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/gender-trouble\/theme-of-sonnets-in-twelfth-night-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme of Sonnets in Twelfth Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found it interesting that Professor Kitch raised a question about the relation between Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets and Twelfth Night. While reading, Viola says to Olivia, &#8220;Lady, you are the cruell&#8217;st she alive if you lead these graces to the grave and leave the world no copy&#8221; (1058). The theme of sonnets 1-10\u00a0are prominent in this conversation. Viola tries to convince Olivia to marry Orsino and have a child to reproduce her beauty. Olivia does not understand Viola and replies, &#8220;I will give out divers schedules of my beauty. It shall be inventoried&#8230;&#8221; In this scene, Olivia is the young man from sonnets 1-10, while Viola is used as a mouthpiece to reinforce Shakespeare&#8217;s beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found it interesting that Professor Kitch raised a question about the relation between Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets and Twelfth Night. While reading, Viola says to Olivia, &#8220;Lady, you are the cruell&#8217;st she alive if you lead these graces to the grave and leave the world no copy&#8221; (1058). The theme of sonnets 1-10\u00a0are prominent in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":420,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-trouble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}