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Malvolio is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, or What You Will. His name means "ill will" in Italian, referencing his disagreeable nature. [ 1 ] He is the vain, pompous, authoritarian steward of Olivia's household.
Servants often dressed up as their masters, men as women, and so forth. This history of festive ritual and carnivalesque reversal [a] is the cultural origin of the play's gender-confusion-driven plot. Puritans often opposed Epiphany celebrations, much as Malvolio opposes the revelry in the play. [8]
The use of this word in this sense is of the sixteenth-century, [6] prescribing the boundaries established in drama and literature, used by Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster (1570) and echoed in Malvolio's tirade in Twelfth Night, "My masters, are you mad, or what are you? Have you no wit, manners nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this ...
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will is a videotaped 1988 television adaptation of Kenneth Branagh's stage production for the Renaissance Theatre Company of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night first broadcast in the UK by Channel 4 on 30 December 1988. [1]
Hoby was also a nephew of Sir Philip Hoby, Master-General of the Ordnance and an English ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire. [3] Hoby was a very small boy and grew up to be nicknamed "the little knight" for his slightness and short stature. [4] He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Oxford, matriculating in 1574 at the age of eight. [5]
Master: A Master captains Alonso's ship, in The Tempest. A Master (fict) ransomes a gentleman in Henry VI, Part 2. For Master Brook see Master Ford. Master Ford is a central character in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He suspects his wife of infidelity with Sir John Falstaff. He tests Falstaff in disguise, calling himself Master Brook.
Encouraged by this success Wolfit determined to try his hand as an actor-manager. He secured financial backing and staged a week-long drama festival in his native Newark in 1934. He presented Arms and the Man, The Master Builder and Twelfth Night, playing Bluntschli, Solness and Malvolio.
Richard David Briers (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor whose five-decade career encompassed film, radio, stage and television.. Briers first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines (1961–66), but it was a few years later, when he narrated Roobarb (1974–76) and Noah and Nelly in...