research essay assignment

Submit research essay by clicking the link above. Upload a Word document or a PDF. After reading Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, choose one of the following prompts to write a research essay over. For this essay, you must use evidence from the play as well as an outside source. You may use multiple outside sources. Your outside source should be used to connect the focus area to the play. Your final essay will need to be 3-5 pages in length and include a Works Cited page for your outside source(s). You can use the Literay Research Outline, which is attached, to help structure your essay. Prompts: On Identity: What did identity mean in the Elizabethan era? How is this reflected in Malvolio’s humiliation with the yellow stockings? What would be an equivalent modern day humiliation? On Gender: Why does Shakespeare write so many female characters that disguise themselves as men? What is he saying about appropriate gender behaviour? How does this reflect the cultural context of the period? What social constructs of gender from the Renaissance do we still have today? On Madness: Madness or insanity appears in many of Shakespeare’s plays. Compare the use of madness in Twelfth Night to its purpose in a tragedy like Macbeth or Hamlet. On Disguise: Is the use of disguise a form of self-deception? Include examples from the use of disguises in the play and in our own culture. What characteristics are we trying to accentuate or hide? due 12/07/2020 10 pm