A Journey that hasn't yet ended

 Quick update on my quest.  I am now nearly through Act II of Twelfth Night, and feeling much the same as I do when about two-thirds through a murder mystery.  Please, no more complications!  Just sort it all out already!  

I also found another well-known quotation for which I didn't have context til now:  'journeys end in lovers meeting'.  In the play, it's part of a song sung by a clown, but even as the clown jokes and jests, these words have a sweet and simple poignancy.  I always thought them very sad for some reason, and the context seems to support that.  The clown is trying to sing a love song, but there is no love there to sing with him.

One more note.  Is it cheating to watch the play while you read it?  I find it almost essential when it comes to Shakespeare's comedies, because it's often only in the delivery and staging that anything is funny. When you watch them, some of the quick-witted humour comes through, and you can see why these plays appealed to such a wide audience.   When you're just reading them, the long conversations between secondary characters (filled with double entendres that are less than subtle and prat-falls that are difficult to picture) seem to be nothing but filler.   

Anyway.  Time to return to a good murder mystery, so I can stop thinking in blank verse.   Death in Paradise Episode 8, here I come.