Word: wooer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twelfth Night drew on a number of common devices of the time. Indeed Shakespeare himself had made use of mistaken twins, a wooer by proxy in disguise, and a crucial letter and ring in his much earlier Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona. What sets Twelfth Night above its immediate and more remote predecessors is its great skill in combining three plots, its masterly preparation for peak scenes, its more subtle and less garish character painting, the richness of thematic overtones and undertones, and the substantial integration of sung music into its spoken music...
...exclusively fanciful ever to be emotionally vulnerable. Blanche's sister Stella (Patricia Conolly) is born to the Southern man or, all right, but we have to take her visceral need for Husband Stanley on faith. Only Philip Bosco gives a performance of perfect pitch, as the shy wooer, "Mitch," who almost marries Blanche until Stanley blurts out the story of her promiscuous past...