Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series.
“If Music be the food of love, play on…” We turn finally to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (or What You Will), a romantic comedy with tragic undertones, about the glories and vagaries of love, mistaken identity, fulfillment and loss.
In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition at Campion College is joined by Dr Colin Dray, Lecturer in Literature at Campion College, together with Dr Kishore Saval, Senior Lecturer in the Western Civilisation Program at Australian Catholic University.
In this last episode of the series we look closely at the first interaction between Olivia and Viola, in Act 1 Scene 5 and go on to explore a series of questions, including: How do our disguises (such as Viola’s in pretending to be a young man) sometimes reveal more of our true desires than our ‘everyday’ selves, and allow the inner self to come forth? And what are the comic and possibly tragic results of the disguises we adopt, for ourselves and others?