Read the opening lines of Twelfth Night. How do these lines introduce the audience to the theme of love, including the ways in which love can cause pain?
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 d'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour. Enough, no more,
Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
[Music ceases]
Ospirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there,
Of what validity and pitch so e'er,
But falls into abatement and low price
Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical