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'a good practice it was to make the steward believe his lady was in love with him by counterfeiting a letter'
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Manningham 1602
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it is perhaps too good natured for comedy. It has little satire, and no spleen.
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Hazlitt 1817
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Malvolio has been much misunderstood
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Lamb 1822
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The character of Feste contains a hint at the poets own comment on the story
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A.C. Bradley 1912
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Shakespeare has built a world out of music and melancholy
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-Doren 1939
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Modern day audiences have bestowed more sympathy on Malvolio than Shakespeare perhaps intended so the balance is not what it was
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-Doren 1939
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Fester has an air of knowing more than anyone else- too much in fact
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Barber 1959
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The clown or vice... was a recognised anarchist who made aberration obvious by carrying release to absurd extremes
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Barber
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Shakespeare focuses on personality of an individual as a function, not a static proportion of humours within him but the dynamic appetites which govern his behaviour
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Hollander
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Illyria's ambiguity is the principle of love as well as comedy
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Knott
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A love sick Orsino addressing a life-denying Olivia sworn to seven years mourning her brother's death. Both are "sick of self love"
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Tonkin
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Malvolio serves as binding the plot and the subplot together
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Warren
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Language communicates truth despite the plays deliberate deception
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Yearling
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Olivia and Viola are non-genetic twins
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Parker
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The inconstancy of men and the solidity and truth of women
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Greer
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"Characters in the play are prisoners of desire"
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Dobson
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Orsino can be mature or very young; poetic; or weak; or strong
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Russell Brown
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Every character has his masks
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Summer
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Feste's role is to tell the characters the truth they don't want to hear
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Emma Smith
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She’s a waiting gentlewoman but she’s able to move between various social groups
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Judi Dench
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(Maria is a) force of nature, subversive, witty
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Judi Dench
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(Viola is the) Secret charm of the play
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Greenblatt
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It is comedy that gives the characters power
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Bakhtin
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(Feste is) the cruelest of Shakespeare’s jesters
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White
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Viola is diminished by a return to a world where she must be Orsino’s lady after the momentary freedom of a Twelfth Night.
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Dusinberre 1975
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Men and women are viewed as equal in a world that declared them unequal
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Dusinberre 1975
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As a sycophant, officious snob and social climber (Malvolio) well deserves to be put back in his place
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Levin 1986
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Twelfth Night includes the only overtly homosexual couple in Shakespeare
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Orgel 1996
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Everyone except Feste, the reluctant jester, is essentially mad without knowing it
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Bloom 1998
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Communication in the play is not "true" and most the action centres around miscommunication
Berry
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Berry
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Orsino is a parody of the melancholy lover of the 16th-centure and shows psychological disorder
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Hudson Shakespeare Company
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All three Malvolio baiters see to allay their anxieties about the pervasiveness of social mobility for they themselves exemplify such mobility
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Gibson
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Sir Toby is a 'Falstaffian Moocher'
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Bevington
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The falseness of Orsino's love is compounded by the real emotion that Viola feels for her brother
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Gay
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Feste is the Apostle of merriment
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Bevington
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Viola is a passive figure, despite her masculine attire, she is a paragon of feminine virtue
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Cash
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The play is offering a glimpse not just of comic sexual self-delusion but of a potentially subversive upwards mobility
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Dobson
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The interlocking scenes of the plot and subplot offer a contrast of romance and social realism
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Gay
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