Twelfth Night; Or What You Will

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  • 'Twelfth Night; or What you Will'
    • David Bevington, 2002
    • What is it about?
      • Malvolio, puritanism and festivity
        • Malvolio's own hypocrisy
      • The hostility of Puritans to the theatre
    • Key Quotes
      • "Puritanism was a hot button issue when Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night"
        • "He is a kind of puritan"
          • "The devil a puritan that he is"
      • "An enemy of merriments and hence a foe of the kind of theatre that Twelfth Night represents"
        • “My masters are you mad? Or what are you?"
        • "Do ye make an alehouse of my ladies house?"
        • "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
      • "Malvolio is a well suited target for satire"
        • "They have propertied me, keep me in darkness"
      • "Malvolio is a hypocrite. Secretly he longs for pleasures of this world and for the authority to control others"
        • "Only, it seems, to the extent that puritans too are likely to be hypocrites of this sort"
          • "she is very willing to bid you farewell.”
            • "Malvolio is a hypocrite. Secretly he longs for pleasures of this world and for the authority to control others"
              • "Only, it seems, to the extent that puritans too are likely to be hypocrites of this sort"
                • "she is very willing to bid you farewell.”
                • "To be count Malvolio"
          • "To be count Malvolio"
        • "Feste, as Malvolio's nemesis and opposite number, is the apostle of merriment"
          • "I admire your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal [...] no more brains than a stone [...] unless you laugh and minister occasion to him he is gagged"

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