Precisely at this moment--when the character is forced to see a discrepancy between what he " wills " and what "is"--the possibility that he is mad confronts him.
- Joan Hartwig, "Feste's 'whirligig' and the comic providence of Twelfth Night"

Charles Lamb on the character of Malvolio (c. 1823?). 
  He's sold me on this interpretation.  Not that it was a hard sell (it should surprise no one that I was already severely leaning this way).

A quote from Nilo Cruz, Cuban-American playwright, whose work Night Train to Bolina I enthusiastically commend to The Internet:
  I believe that a writer ( Read more... )