In my lecture yesterday, one of the issues that was raised was that some of the plots are hard to accept easily - how "suspension of disbelief" can be hard to attain, in other words. For example, plots with identical twins and shipwrecks are used in both The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night. In taking a close look at Twelfth Night, it occurred to me that the benefit of such a "fantastic" story line is that it allows characters (and the audience) to go to places they wouldn't be able to otherwise. I'll explain, with examples, tomorrow.