Key quotations — Twelfth Night — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Twelfth Night, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'If music be the food of love, play on', 'Conceal me what I am', 'I am not that I play', 'Make me a willow cabin at your gate', 'O time! thou must untangle this, not I', 'Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?', 'some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em', 'She never told her love', 'Love sought is good, but given unsought better', 'Why, this is very midsummer madness', 'there is no darkness but ignorance', 'One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons', 'And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges' and 'I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you'.
Edexcel's Shakespeare question has two parts: part (a) on the printed extract marks only language, form and structure (AO2), so context earns nothing there; part (b) on the play elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1, 15 marks) and context (AO3, 5 marks), not language analysis. Say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
