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- Title
The Apprentice, the Clown, and the Puritan: Comic Revenge as Theatrical Drawing-out in Twelfth Night.
- Authors
Madelaine, Richard
- Abstract
Twelfth Night offers the actor of Maria unique role-playing opportunities, and the role was probably written for the Clown's apprentice. The major training elements in the drawing-out of Maria's role derive from the actor's assuming a revenger's role (a rare opportunity for an apprentice) which in turn allows the apprentice to draw out the Clown and the Puritan by devising new roles for them. In manipulating Malvolio into the role of ambition-crazed pseudo-lover, Maria humiliates and disempowers him by ironically theatrical means, while enabling Feste to extend his subversive comic role.
- Subjects
ROLE playing; THEATER education; APPRENTICES; CLOWNS in literature; WOMEN in literature
- Publication
Parergon, 2012, Vol 29, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
0313-6221
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/pgn.2012.0008