Don't take life so serious

• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit


  Feste highlights the value of lighthearted intelligence over overly serious or pretentious thinking.
• “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”


  Toby mocking Malv for being uptight
• “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”


  Feste making a dark quip on domestic violence and the idea of laughing in life misery
• “If music be the food of love, play on.”


  Orsino living passionately not practically
• C.L. Barber (from Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy) 


  “Twelfth Night dramatizes release from the constraints of everyday identity and status.”
• “The world of Illyria, though touched with pain, is one in which laughter ultimately heals.”


  Anne barton
• Present mirth hath present laughter.


  Festes song with the message of laugh when life is hard
• a festive carnival


  Bloom