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Orsino

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Orsino
plays role of languishing lover. [Br. Lit.: Twelfth Night]


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Viola struggles with a masculine persona that waffles between dork and babe magnet and somehow gets caught in a love triangle between Duke Orsino (Channing Tatum) and Olivia (Laura Ramsey), while fretting over how to shower in Illyria's open-space stalls.
There, to ransom a captive lady, Edmund must face the Orsino champion in single combat.
To some extent the mood darkens in Twelfth Night, where "[n] o consistent moral can be drawn" when "Olivia and Orsino are just as deluded as Malvolio," yet the former are rewarded and latter is punished "without pretense of reform" (193).
 
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