Abstract
ABSTRACTThis essay examines the ways that Twelfth Night’s spatial dynamics provide a lens by which to observe the intricate connections between diegetic and mimetic spaces, as well as between the perceptions of characters onstage and the perceptions of the audience as it negotiates the material and theatrical construction of these spaces. Feste’s “we three” jest presents playgoers with the spatial knowledge required to perceive the final scene’s reunion of Viola and Sebastian as “a natural perspective, that is and is not” (5.1.209). Throughout the play, mimetic and diegetic spaces are integrated for the audience in ways that upend any strict division of representation in theatrical space into what is visually presented and what is reported.
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