Twelfth Night in 1602
Interpretive Task: Imagine you are directing a production of Twelfth Night in 1602. Would you stage the play at the beginning of the holiday season to gear up for festivities, at the high point of raucous celebration, or on the last day as everything is winding down and returning to normal? In a 6 to 7-page essay, explain your directorial choice by arguing to what extent the play makes fun of social hierarchies and codes of conduct, and to what extent the play ultimately reinforces those hierarchies and codes as necessary restrictions. You can consider issues of gender-bending, sexuality, social class, religion, or some combination of these to help you refine your argument.
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Get Help Now!For this essay, you will need to incorporate three outside, scholarly sources to supplement your interpretation. These sources might be pieces of literary criticism that explicitly discuss Twelfth Night, and/or cultural and historical background that doesn’t explicitly discuss the play but nevertheless provides information relevant to your argument. One of these outside sources can be Stephen Greenblatt’s chapter “Fiction and Friction,” which we will be reading together as a class.
English 110
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Essay 4 Prompt
Timeline of Assignments:
Exploratory Writing Assignment due on Canvas
MEET IN LIBRARY
Reading: Stephen Greenblatt’s chapter, “Fiction and Friction”
Bring in 2 outside sources (academic books and/or academic articles) for approval
Writing Development Assignment due on Canvas by end of day
Final draft due in class (end of class discussion during our scheduled “final exam). Hardcopy + “Turn It In” submission on Canvas à Assignmentsà Essay 4.
Exploratory Writing Assignment:
- In at least 400 words, using at least 5 direct quotations from the play, explain how the play is subversive and how it might make fun of social hierarchies and codes of conduct.
- In at least 400 words, using at least 5 direct quotations from the play, take the opposite view, and explain how the play suggests that the disruption of social norms is NOT a good thing, and that people should respect their traditional social roles.
Writing Development Assignment:
- Develop a working outline: a thesis statement and the specific topic sentences (“mini-arguments”) for your body paragraphs, along with the textual evidence you have so far.
- Below your outline, include a collection of at least 5 quotations from your outside sources that you think could be relevant to your argument.
Grading Rubric and Criteria for a Successful Essay
–To receive a passing grade, your paper must be at least 6 full pages long, follow MLA formatting, and have an original title that expresses the point of view of the paper. You must incorporate references to three credible academic resources. All texts will be correctly listed on a separate Works Cited page.
| Introduction (5 points): A brief introductory paragraph engages the reader by succinctly explaining the interpretive problem at hand, which leads to the thesis statement. The name of the playwright and the title of the play are correctly identified | |
| Thesis (10 points): In 1-2 sentences, the thesis statement addresses the prompt in an original way by answering the “Why? How? In what specific ways? To what extent? So what?” questions. The thesis encapsulates the argument and logical arc of the paper without simply listing topics. | |
| Organized and Intentional Argument (15): Each topic sentence of each body paragraph presents a distinct mini-argument about the play which advances the argument of the whole essay. The rhetorical sequence of the body paragraphs follows a distinct, effective logical progression.The writer uses transitional topic sentences to guide the reader between ideas. | |
| Direct Textual Support (20): Each body paragraph will rely on specific examples from the play, including at least two direct quotations in each body paragraph. These quotations are integrated coherently and grammatically into your own wording, with parenthetical Act, Scene, Line(s) citation, like so: (1.3.14-17). Quotations are accompanied by or imbedded in commentary that draws reasonable inferences about their significance. The essay does not suffer from miscomprehension of the play. | |
| Analytic Development and Original Critical Thinking (10): In the body paragraphs, the writer explains reasonable inferences about specific details in the play, articulating what each detail suggests and why without simply summarizing. There is substantial evidence of careful, original thinking about the text, in the form of analyzing details we did not discuss in class, or analyzing passages we discussed in class in a different way. The mini-arguments of the body paragraphs, along with their rhetorical sequencing, will also be original in their design. The writer never relies on generalizations or universal assertions. The writer contends with counterarguments, and alternative inferences. | |
| Effective Use of Outside Sources (20): The writer has chosen three reliable academic sources. The essay smoothly engages with these sources to refine, enrich, and/or qualify the writer’s own argument, using direct quotations, paraphrase, and/or summary where most effective. The writer provides sufficient context for the reader to understand the significance of the outside information and its relationship to the essay’s own arguments. | |
| Conclusion (5): A brief conclusion paragraph reflects on the limitations, implications, and possible broader questions suggested by the essay’s argument. | |
| Sentence-Level Mechanics, Enrichment, and Expression (15):
Free of fragments, run-together sentences, and usage, punctuation, and spelling errors Correct use of the “literary present tense” Avoids passive constructions whenever possible Uses clear, memorable phrasing. The wording enhances the argument. |
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