1. Imaginative Geography in Twelfth Night
Christy Desmet
University of Georgia

2. 1.2 of Twelfth Night
VIOLA: What country, friends, is this? CAPTAIN: This is Illyria, lady. VIOLA: And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. Perchance he is not drowned.—What think you, sailors? CAPTAIN: It is perchance that you yourself were saved. VIOLA: O, my poor brother! And so perchance may he be. (Twelfth Night, 1.2, Folger Digital Texts)

3. Abraham Ortelius, Map of Adriatic Sea

4. Shipwreck in Trevor Nunn Twelfth Night

5. Sebastian Abandons Ship inTrevor Nunn Twelfth Night

6. Brother and Sister Separated in Trevor Nunn Twelfth Night

7. Twelfth Night
CAPTAIN: True, madam. And to comfort you with chance, Assure yourself, after our ship did split, When you and those poor number saved with you Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself (Courage and hope both teaching him the practice) To a strong mast that lived upon the sea, Where, like Arion on the dolphin’s back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves So long as I could see.

8. Arion astride a dolphin
“The mind of wild beasts is not so savage as that of greedy man.”
Alciato at Glasgow:

9. Twelfth Night (FDT)
Antonio: A witchcraft drew me hither. That most ingrateful boy there by your side From the rude sea’s enraged and foamy mouth Did I redeem; a wrack past hope he was. ( ) Orsino: Be not amazed; right noble is his blood. If this be so, as yet the glass seems true, I shall have share in this most happy wrack.— Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times Thou never shouldst love woman like to me. ( )

10. Northrop Frye, “The Argument of Comedy”

11. Green World
Judi Dench as Titania with Bottom at the Rose Theatre, Kingston

12. Kenneth Branagh Twelfth Night (1988)

13. Entering Illyria: John Sichel TN (1969)

14. Trevor Nunn TN (1996)

15. Indoor vs. Outdoors in Trevor Nunn TN

16. “Upstairs/Downstairs”
John Sichel Twelfth Night (1969)

17. “Upstairs/Downstairs”
Trevor Nunn Twelfth Night (1996)

18. Festive Space
Kenneth Branagh TN (1988)

19. Garden as Liminal Space

20. Charles Kent, Silent Twelfth Night (1910)

21. Lady and the Unicorn, Musee Cluny, Paris (Wikipedia)

22. Leonardo da Vince , Annunciation , Uffizi, Florence (Wikipedia)

23. Romance of the Rose (British Library)
Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. For women are as roses, whose fair flower, Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
Orsino to Viola
Romance of the Rose (British Library)

24. Viola as Liminal Characer
MALVOLIO: Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy—as a squash is before ’tis a peascod, or a codling when ’tis almost an apple. ’Tis with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favored, and he speaks very shrewishly. One would think his mother’s milk were scarce out of him. (Twelfth Night, ff.)