Question

What does this excerpt from Shakespeare’s twelfth night reveal about duke orsino

Answer 1

DUKE: If music be the food of love, play on,

Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken and so die.—

That strain again;—it had a dying fall;

O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,

That breathes upon a bank of violets,

Stealing and giving odour.—Enough; no more;

'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

Answer 2

It is stated that music holds a lot of power within it, he explained the music beautifully that shows how much love was loved by Duke Orsino.

"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.

— That strain again;

—it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.

—Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before."