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The costumes that many characters wear represent different identities that people take on, as much in their everyday lives as when acting in a play. The costumes in the play show that a character or person's identity can change in different situations.
Costumes Quotes in Twelfth Night
The Twelfth Night quotes below all refer to the symbol of Costumes. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1, scene 5
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He is very well-favored and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
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Act 2, scene 4
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Viola: My father had a daughter loved a man,
As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.
Orsino: And what's her history?
Viola: A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.
Orsino: And what's her history?
Viola: A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
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Act 5, scene 1
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Give me thy hand
And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.
And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.
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