Question

In a paper discussing gender differences in one play, Carol Cook suggests a link between this word and the double meaning of “marked” in the Friar’s description of “a thousand blushing apparitions” in a climactic church scene. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this word, which puns on an Elizabethan slang word for a vagina in the title of a Shakespeare play.
ANSWER: nothing [accept Much Ado About Nothing]
[10m] This character from Much Ado About Nothing frequently alludes to the play’s theme of anxiety about cuckoldry in his diatribes against marriage, though he eventually marries Beatrice anyhow.
ANSWER: Benedick
[10e] Gender norms and androgyny are also explored by the cross-dressing Viola in this other Shakespeare play, in which she is separated from her twin Sebastian after a shipwreck.
ANSWER: Twelfth Night [or What You Will]
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