Malv critics

• 'his morality and manners are misplaced in Illyria' 


  Charles Lamb, 1823

  Illyria lacks substance, Malvolio however is civil and well-mannered
• 'a sort of greatness never seems to desert him' 


  Lamb, 1823

  Admires Malvolio's hanging onto sanity despite the others - e.g sir topas.
• 'when a proficient actor plays the role of malvolio, he is presented tragically rather than humorously' 


  Hewlett, 1907
• 'Malv is Shakespeare's / enemies of art and life. Aroused Elizabethan dramatists into oppostion' 


  Tilley, 1914
• 'Our feelings towards a religious puritan has become more accepting' 


  Priestly, 1925
• 'Malvolio secretly longed for the pleasures of this world and for authority to control others' 


  Bevington, 2002