‘Twelfth Night': Learning to Discern Between Appearance and Reality
Orsino desires an 'excess' of 'love-food' so that his taste will sicken and die. He wants to be overloaded with love-sickness, to wallow in his forlorn feelings of melancholy. He enjoys the sadness as he loafs about his palace, listening to sad songs and composing love poems, pining for a woman he really knows little about. Orsino reveals, from the very beginning of the play, that he's in love with being in love.
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Duke Orsino begins Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night, or What You Will' with the famous lines, 'If music be the food of love, play on; / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken, and so die.' The poetry is lovely. But what is he really asking for? Orsino desires an 'excess' of 'love-food' so that his taste will sicken and die. He wants to be overloaded with love-sickness, to wallow in his forlorn feelings of melancholy. He enjoys the sadness as he loafs about his palace, listening to sad songs and composing love poems, pining for a woman he really knows little about. Orsino reveals, from the very beginning of the play, that he's in love with being in love.
