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Article: Reviving Viola: comic and tragic teen film adaptations of Twelfth Night.(Critical essay)
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- Shakespeare Bulletin
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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Early in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Viola, disguised as the male page Cesario, realizes that she has unintentionally caused Olivia to fall in love with her, discovering in soliloquy, "I am the man" (2.2.25). (1) She goes on to observe that by donning male garb, she has become a "poor monster" (2.2.34), a creature both male and female, who is confusing to herself and others. Andy Fickman's conventional studio comedy She's the Man (2006) and Lea Pool's subversive indie tragedy Lost and Delirious (2001) provide us with two modern-day Violas who experience similar moments of identity crisis, albeit in ways that are worlds away from Shakespeare's text. In She's the Man, ...