The Interpretation of Act V Scene I The Twelfth Night is a Shakespearean romantic comedy that is filled with plenty of humor and lots of deception. It is frequently read as a play about masking, about the conscious and unconscious assumption of false identities and about levels of self-knowledge and self-deception; this theme is played out prominently through Viola’s transsexual disguise (Kahn 43). The play is comprised of five acts and numerous scenes. However, I …showed first 75 words of 1391 total…

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