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Pete Bunten offers approaches on how to analyse an unseen piece of Shakespearean comedy, based on a scene from Twelfth Night

Viola (Emily Taaffe) emerges from the water after the shipwreck at the opening of Twelfth Night (RSC, 2012)

During your study of Shakespearean comedy, you will often need to carry out a close analysis of a scene from the play you have chosen. Some exam papers require you to respond directly to a given extract from that play. This article uses a scene from Twelfth Night to suggest some ways of tackling this kind of question.

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