Madness

• My masters are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?
• Sir Topas, never was a man thus wronged. Good sir Topas, do not think I am mad. They have laid me here in hideous darkness.
• I am as mad as he, If sad and merry madness equal be.
• "I am not mad, sir"


  Viola insists she is not mad despite her doubts and feelings for Orsino, in Act 3, Scene 2
• "Antonio, you're mad. / No, no, Antonio, / I am mad"


  Antonio and Sebastian, who is unaware of his own identity, accuse each other of being mad, in Act 3, Scene 4
• Madness and Identity

  The theme of madness is closely tied to ideas of identity and sanity in Twelfth Night, as characters question their own selves and struggle to maintain a sense of self