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• “Feste has an air of knowing more than anyone else - too much in fact” Barber
• “Communication in the play is not "true" and most the action centres around communication” Berry
• “Everyone except Feste, the reluctant jester, is essentially mad without knowing it” Bloom
• “Viola is a passive figure, despite her masculine attire, she is a paragon of feminine virtue” Cash
• “Shakespeare has built a world out of music and melancholy” Doren
• “Modern day audiences have bestowed more sympathy on Malvolio than Shakespeare perhaps intended, so the balance is not what it was” Doren
• “Men and women are viewed as equal in a world that declared them unequal” Dusinberre
• "The falseness of Orsino's love is compounded by the real emotion that Viola feels for her brother" Gay
• “Orsino is a parody of the melancholy lover of the 16th-century and shows psychological disorder” Hudson Shakespeare Compnay
• “Malvolio has been much misunderstood” Lamb
• "[Malvolio] well deserves to be put back in his place” Levin
• “Feminine assertiveness is viewed with hostility” Park
• “Olivia and Viola are non-genetic twins" Parker
• "Feste embodies the transcendent perspective from which Twelfth Night and other Shakespearean comedy is written" Ryan
• "Antonio stands out as he belongs to the world of merchants and sea- battles, not the world of courtly love" Salinger
• "Shakespeare enjoys playing with confusion of gender" Smith
• "Both [Orsino and Olivia] are 'sick of self love'" Tonkin
• "Malvolio serves as binding the plot and the subplot together" Warren
• “Language communicates truth despite the plays deliberate deception” Yearling
• "the comedy arises largely out of the confusion and anxiety surrounding the question on manliness" Campbell
• “Twelfth Night depicts one’s gender as essentially a performed role” Thomas
• The all male cast “becomes a kind of artistic freedom, enabling the characters to switch their sexual identity” Mullan
• “The inconstancy of men and the solidity and truth of women” Greer
• Viola “collapses the polarities in which heterosexuality is based” Charles