Word: malvolios
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...partying... before the Great Depression,” Bolman says. In addition to the common thread of festivity that unites the celebrations of the Twelfth Night holiday and those of the Jazz Age, both periods share a puritanical element. It is represented by the rigid moral code of Malvolio in “Twelfth Night” and prohibition in the 20s. Amongst the revelry and puritanical elements found in the 20s, there was also a sense of mourning as the country healed from the recent losses suffered during World War I. This factor is also weaved into the production...
...tragedies but undervalued his comedies, overlooking their moral complexity and their glimpses of humiliation and pain in commoners' everyday life. The stress on low comic exaggeration also robs Twelfth Night of much of its social consequence: there is little sense that the battle between Sir Toby Belch and Malvolio has anything to do with the decline of the old gentry and the rise of the bourgeoisie...
...energetic farewell production by Stratford Artistic Director John Hirsch is strikingly played, notably by Richard McMillan as Edgar, Lewis Gordon as Gloucester, and McKenna as a passionate, not just saintly, Cordelia. In an echo of Twelfth Night, Hirsch also features the Fool, whom Nicholas Pennell, unbearably mannered as Malvolio, plays with clearheaded reason and heartbreaking foresight. Together, the shows remind what should be an envious U.S. that its neighbor has a grand if at times misguided national theater. --By William A. Henry...
...comrades and the assistance of the wise fool Feste (Abraham J.R. Riesman ’08), who ultimately offers all a lesson in love, Olivia’s wacky uncle Sir Toby Belch (David J. Prum ’80) all the while plots revenge on scrupulous servant Malvolio (Daniel J. Wilner...
...Smile (Basic Books; 226 pages) produces an abundance of them. Begun as a speech delivered to the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in 1998, Trumble's book artfully deconstructs the smile "into more lines than are in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies," as Malvolio is described in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Trumble watches it arc through art, anthropology and advertising - "a fabulously versatile contortion," he concludes, "capable of many meanings." Its current ascendancy, he argues, has come about through advances in dental science - allowing the smile to loom larger, and toothier, than ever - coupled with...