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1599, original Feste

Robert Armin

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1641 John Mannigham

'The gulling of Malvolio is good practice'

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1660's Cave Underhill played Feste as...

'wooden comic 1660's fixity'

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1822 Charles Lamb

'Malvolio has been much misunderstood'

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1939 Doren (Shakespeare's world)

'Shakespeare has built a world out of music and melancholy'

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1939 Doren (Modern day audiences)

'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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1959 Barber

'Feste has an air of knowin more than anyone esle - too much infact'

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1974 Ron Pember's Feste

Became a Malvolio like puritan

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1975 Dussinbere

'Men are women are viewed as equal in a world that declared them unequal'

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1980 Clara Park

'Feminine assertivness is viewed with hostility'

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1981 Karen Grief

'Viola became the agent required to free Orsino and Olivia from their ******* of sad delusions'

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1986 Harry Levin

'As a sycophant, officious snob and social climber [Malvolio] well deserves to be put back in his place'

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1987 Anton Lessers Feste in Kenneth Brannagh's Production

Played as a gypsy like hobo, and, a creepy and animalistic old man

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1992 J.H Summers

'At the opening of the play, Orsino and Olivia accept their aristocratic ideas of love'

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1998 Harold Bloom

'Everyone except Feste, the reluctant jester, is essentially mad without knowing it'

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1999 Tonkin

'Sir Toby's world of festival idleness will eventually give way to Malvolio's kill joy world of everyday'

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2012 Globe Production - Carrol

Characters all played by men 'Rageous comedy'

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2017 National Theatre Production

Both Feste and Malvolio played as females

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'The gulling of Malvolio is good practice'

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1641 John Mannigham

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'wooden comic 1660's fixity'

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'Malvolio has been much misunderstood'

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'Shakespeare has built a world out of music and melancholy'

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