LAUGHING AT MADNESS: BRINGING MALVOLIO FROM THE PAGE TO STAGE
Links to Files
Permanent Link
Collections
Author/Creator
Author/Creator ORCID
Date
Department
Hood College Arts and Humanities
Program
Humanities
Citation of Original Publication
Rights
Subjects
Abstract
The following investigates how scholarly research and dramatic interpretations
influence directorial decisions concerning Malvolio and how depicting the steward as an
unsympathetic character dramatically influences the tonality of Shakespeare's comedy.
This paper discusses a range of literary and performance possibilities for Malvolio based
on textual references and how those choices influenced my directorial vision of Malvolio
in Shepherd University's Rude Mechanicals' November 2013 production of Twelfth
Night.