Terry Eagleton – love | Characters in love are “simultaneously at their most real and unreal |
John Kott – Passion | Passion is one; it just has different faces |
David Jones – love | Orsino imagines that he is in love with Olivia although he doesn’t really know her at all |
Montegut – Carnivalesque | Twelfth Night is a masquerade |
Anne Barton – Feste | He (Feste) just seeks fact |
Montegut – Malvolio | “Malvolio is, no question, a fool” |
A.S Leggatt – Malvolio | Malvolio too is in the prison of his ego but for him it is a gorgeous palace |
Karen Greif – Viola | Disguised Viola… becomes the agent required to free Olivia (and Orsino) from their bondage of their self delusions |
Berry – ending | The ultimate effect of Twelfth Night is to make the audience ashamed of itself |
Hazlitt – ending | One of the most delightful of Shakespeare’s comedies. It is full of sweetness and pleasantry… it makes us laugh |
john summer | every character has his mask |
Twelfth Night critical quotes
July 26, 2019