Feste und Feiern

SOURCE: "A Star is Born: Feste on the Modern Stage " in Shakespeare Quarterly Vol. 39 No. 1 Spring 1988 pp. 61-78. All the characters in Twelfth Night are masqueraders?all imposters self ...

 

Viola's witty pun in Act 3 Scene 1 of 'Twelfth Night' demonstrates her cleverness and ability to match Feste in wordplay momentarily adopting the fool's role.

 

Scene 5Scene 5 opens with a witty conversation between Maria and the clown Feste. Maria lightly scolds Feste for being absent from Olivia?s...

 

Feste the jester my lord; a fool that the lady Olivia's father took much delight in Curio introduces Feste by name to Orsino in Act II Scene 4 highlighting Feste's dual role as both a ...

 

Feste on the other hand is a remarkable character and to expend his energies as Sir Toby's back-up man would detract considerably from his complexity and versatility as a character.

 

Feste knows how foolish the behavior is but that does not stop him from joining in. The group?s primary prank is on Malvolio who is the enemy of revelry.

 

Feste concludes with a song. Analysis The last act of Twelfth Night resolves the action of the play but the resolution is strange in many respects and leaves several unanswered questions.

 

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Scene 1As scene 1 begins Viola and Feste are discussing the whimsicality of words and engaging in a witty exchange of wordplay. Viola pays...

 

Feste has also been referred to as the only character in Twelfth Night who remains detached from the play's conflicts thus being able to comment objectively on the other characters' actions and ...