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Twelfth Night · 2012 — 第 5 / 25 章 · 3'30" · C1

Cesario Arrives to Woo Olivia, Explained：fortified against any denial

A young man will not leave Olivia's gate, so she finally lets him in. It is Cesario, sent by Orsino with a polished speech. But the messenger keeps stumbling over his own lines: "I would be loath to cast away my speech," he says, and admits he is not the person he is playing.

あらすじ

At Olivia's house, her people report that a young man at the gate refuses every excuse and insists on speaking with her. Olivia lets him in. It is Cesario — Viola in disguise — bringing Duke Orsino's elaborate love speech. Nervous and out of his depth, Cesario fusses over the words and jokes that the question asked is outside the part he prepared.

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fortified against any denialwell favouredmother's milk scarce out of himcomedian

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このシーンの表現

fortified against any denial

ready to resist every refusal

Malvolio reports that the young man has fortified himself against every refusal.

He was fortified against any denial before the hearing began.

このシーンの他の表現

  • well favoured

    good-looking

  • mother's milk scarce out of him

    barely weaned, far too young

  • comedian

    an actor or comic player

  • out of my part

    outside my assigned lines

  • usurp

    to seize what is not yours

このシーンのメモ一覧

56 行のセリフに 17 件のメモ

表現 · C2take on oneself to do something

to presume to do something

He takes on him to understand so much.
表現 · C1fortified against something

ready to resist every refusal

Malvolio reports that the young man has fortified himself against every refusal.

He's fortified against any denial.
表現 · C1will you or no

whether you like it or not

He'll speak with you will you or no.
表現 · C2of what personage and years

of what looks and age

Of what personage and years is he?
表現 · B2between X and Y

caught between two stages

'Tis with him in standing water between boy and man.
表現 · B2well favoured

good-looking

Malvolio vaguely calls the young man well favoured rather than describe his face.

He's, um, very well favoured.
表現 · C2the milk is scarce out of someone

barely weaned, very young

One would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
発音throw it o'er

Link throw it o'er into one sound, with o'er flattened to a single vowel.

Come, throw it o'er my face.
表現 · C2hear an embassy

to receive an envoy's message

We'll... we'll once more hear Orsino's embassy.
表現 · B1the lady of the house

the woman of the household

The honourable lady of the house, which is she?
表現 · C1be loath to do something

unwilling to waste something

I would be loath to cast away my speech.
表現 · C1take great pains to do something

to work hard at learning something

For besides that it is excellently well-penned, I have taken great pains to con it.
表現 · C1sustain scorn

to bear mockery

Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn.
表現 · C2out of one's part

outside my assigned lines

Asked where he comes from, Cesario says the question is out of his part, beyond his script.

And that question's out of my part.
表現 · C2usurp oneself

to seize one's own place wrongly

If... if I do not usurp myself, I am.
表現 · C2yours to bestow

yours to give away

For what is yours to bestow is not yours to reserve.
文法 · B2what is yours to bestow

subject clause: The clause what is yours to bestow acts as the subject: the thing you may give is not yours to keep.

For what is yours to bestow is not yours to reserve.

「Cesario Arrives to Woo Olivia」を読み解く

What's really going on

This is a comedy of a messenger who cannot keep up his own act. Olivia is in mourning and has sworn off men; she agrees to see the caller only to end the pestering. In comes Cesario, carrying Orsino's overblown praise — "Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty" — and immediately starts to wobble. The joke is that he keeps saying he is not what he seems, and he is right: "by the very fangs of malice, I swear I am not that I play." Every audience in the theatre knows Viola is a woman playing a boy, which turns a tired flirtation speech into a joke about acting itself. Olivia, meanwhile, is drawn to the strange messenger and asks him to stay. The scene is doing two things at once: mocking the flowery language of courtship and starting the attraction that will drive the plot.

Theme

IdentityCesario keeps promising he is not what he appears, and the audience knows he is telling the truth.
DeceptionViola delivers Orsino's love speech in disguise, turning honest courtship into an act built on a lie.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Fortified against denial means refusal cannot move him.
  • Comedian here means actor, not joke-teller.
  • Out of my part means beyond the lines I was given.
  • Olivia's veil turns identity into the whole game.

発音のポイント

  • throw it o'er — Link throw it o'er into one sound, with o'er flattened to a single vowel.
And yet, by the very fangs of malice, I swear I am not that I play.

Cesario swears he is not the person he is acting, a joke the audience hears literally because Viola is disguised.

For what is yours to bestow is not yours to reserve.

A witty paradox: if something is yours to give away, you cannot also keep it. He hints Olivia should give her love.

as a squash is before 'tis a peascod or a coddling when 'tis almost an apple.

A comic country comparison for Cesario's age: not yet a man, no longer a boy, like an unripe fruit.

Tell him he shall not speak with me.

Olivia's order to refuse the caller. It shows she wants the visit ended before it begins.

I would be loath to cast away my speech.

Cesario doesn't want his rehearsed speech wasted, revealing he is nervous about performing for Olivia.

このシーンについての質問

Why is everyone at the gate talking about a young man?

A young stranger keeps asking to see Olivia. The servant says he is 'fortified against any denial,' turning away every excuse, so Olivia finally allows him in.

Who is the young man at the gate?

It is Cesario, who is really Viola in disguise. She has come from Duke Orsino to deliver his love speech to Olivia.

What does "fortified against any denial" mean?

It means he is ready for every refusal and will not be turned away. It comes from fortifying a place for defense: he is armored against the word 'no.'

Why is Cesario nervous?

He is a disguised servant delivering a long, carefully written speech and does not want to embarrass himself. He frets that he must not 'cast away' his speech.

How does Olivia react to Cesario?

At first she only agrees to end the pestering, veiled and formal. But she is curious and drawn to the strange messenger, which begins the attraction at the heart of the play.

Twelfth Night · 全 25 章

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