How Does Shakespeare Represent Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Relationships in the Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night

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Viola in a sense becomes Orsino's "servant" in marriage instead of his man-servant and seems to be completely fine with her role. Another important relationship in Twelfth Night is the one that exists between Viola and Sebastian. This relationship is stressed to be the most important of the play...
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Viola's close relationship with her twin brother causes her to assume the identity of a man who looks and acts exactly like the brother she believes she has lost. Shakespeare stresses how important this relationship is by only allowing the confusion in the play to be undone by his arrival as well as the lengthy way in which Viola is finally unmasked...
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