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You have to think about Orsino as this idiot who is desperately in love with Olivia, but does nothing about it. He goes through the whole play talking about music and love : "If music be the food of love", and so on...
But as the play develops, we start to realize that he is not so in love with Olivia as he thinks he is. It is just an excuse for him to be lost in his own thoughts, and to suffer. Such as that at the end he ends up marrying Viola.
He doesn't really know what he wants. Just act like a jerk!!! (Welkl, don't overact. He is not suuuuch a jerk.)
Posted by Lessel Della Manna on April 15, 1997 at 16:18:53
In Reply to "Orsino in Shakespeare's Twefth Night" posted by Frank Heesbeen on April 14, 1997 at 08:51:30
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