#malvolio

[wisteria-lodge]

MALVOLIO: By my life, this is my lady’s hand: these be her very C’s, her U’s, and her T’s, and thus makes she her great P’s. SIR ANDREW: Her C’s, her U’s, and her T’s. Why that?

I hate how clever this joke is.

So Malvolio is reading what he thinks is a love letter from his boss, Olivia, and he thinks he recognizes his her handwriting, her "hand." (Sir Andrew is spying from the bushes.)

But, the fact that he specifically calls out her 'C' 'U' 'n 'T' draws attention to what he is really thinking about.

but BUT, if you look at it phonetically (said out loud in a play) then the line becomes "seize, use, and tease."

Which makes it a handjob joke. "My lady's [literal] hand, these are her very seize, her use, and her tease, and thus she makes her great peace. [orgasm]. And that's what Malvolio in the midst of his big power fantasy is REALLY thinking about.

and then Sir Andrew draws attention to this joke, making it sound like he's never had sex, which of course he hasn't, because his thing is that he's very alone (very probably because he doesn't realize that he's gay.)

that's a three tier pun that's also got character development.

dammit shakespeare

#william shakespeare #shakespeare stuff #shakespeares dick jokes #classic lit #twelfth night #shakespeare #malvolio

[unicornofthemidwest]

girls will see a character that's strictly bound by rules, very good at their job, disliked by everyone else in the story, and destined to have a disappointing ending, and be like "he's so me"

#Tropes #Characters #This is about. Malvolio twelfth night #Malvolio #Also #Javert #Agravain

[mourningmaybells]

whoring it up 15th century style

#twelfth night #my school performed it on the field back in high school #i accidentally missed most of the play and when i got there someone was wearing the stockings #malvolio

[wronghands1]

#shakespeare #minor characters #yorick #banquo #malvolio #literature #books #reading #plays #theatre #wronghands #humor #john atkinson #webcomic

[livepoultryfreshkilled]

me and max @butchhamlet are like the lone malvolio defenders. shes literally out there being twelfth night's most oppressed hetfag and you dare to say she would be anti butch/femme? she would be MILITANTLY pro butch/femme if anything she loves rules and structures okay. these guys. they dont even know malvolio. they dont even get him.

#aries.doc #twelfth night #malvolio #shakespeare

[greencheekconure27]

Thinking about Maria in Twelfth Night today, and I'm sure somebody else analyzed this before me (and probably much better) but:

Sir Toby is often seen as the instigator of the prank on Malvolio, but Maria? Maria is the one who turns on him the very SECOND he threatens her place in the household. She wasn't interested in enabling Toby before this, but this is where it flips, and she immediately goes all-out.

My theory is that before Malvolio came along she was Olivia's closest confidant (besides Feste, who apparently has a tendency to disappear from time to time), and I do think she genuinely loves her. Then Olivia's father and brother die, and suddenly she has to handle all the family affairs, and on top of that she isolates herself in her grief. So Malvolio,(who originally would interact more with her father and later brother) becomes closer to her, displacing Maria; the distance between her and the rest of the household keeps growing, and Malvolio gains more and more power because Olivia's too miserable to intercede on their behalf. To Toby and by extension Andrew Malvolio is merely a nuisance and an upstart- they still are above him on the social ladder, and it's pretty clear to everybody that Olivia will keep putting up with his shenanigans no matter what she says.To Maria, he's a genuine threat and a rival for her mistress's favour. I don't think she's doing this for Toby (she likes him yes but she also disapproves of his behaviour) or just out of pettiness; she really wants Malvolio out of the way, so she encourages the others' petty grievances to achieve this goal. She's not just the brains behind the operation, she's the one who gets the most out of it, which includes her marrying Toby before the truth comes out to secure her position even better.

(Feste participates partially because a) he views it as part of his court jester duties to restore the balance (which is why he also helps him when the rest of the company starts going overboard) b) Malvolio attempted to threaten his position as well c) general love of chaos)

#thoughts #twelfth night #maria #feste #sir toby #malvolio #olivia #fabian #Shakespeare

[controversial-blorbo-bracket]

Controversial Character Tournament Round 2: Cersei Lannister from A Song Of Ice And Fire vs Malvolio from Twelfth Night

(remember that these characters are fictional and your fellow tumblr users are real. please be normal in the notes, i will not hesitate to block if you harass people)

Propaganda under the cut, may contain spoilers:

Cersei Lannister:

LOVE: - "Gaslight gatekeep girlboss but she's bad at it I love her so much"

Malvolio:

BOTH: - "the silly. but watch out" - "Look I know he’s annoying but it’s just the autism so please be nice to him :( (and also the whole side plot of the rest of the side cast bullying and gaslighting (iirc actual gaslighting, I don’t mean this as an exaggeration) went much too far. Like if there was a line they crossed it two acts ago)."

#poll #round 2 #1 submission #2 submissions #cersei lannister #a song of ice and fire #game of thrones #shakespeare #william shakespeare #malvolio twelfth night #malvolio #twelfth night

[emaya-chan-the-potato-headed]

Fashion eras clashing so hard you can HEAR them...

the early Tudor era clothing...and that VERY Georgian era hair! 😂

(picture from Royal Collection Trust .uk 's website)

#twelfth night #malvolio #shakespeare #1530 clashing with 1770 #brings to mind those snooty actor guys from Blackadder the Third 😆

[shakespearenews]

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #twelfth night #orson welles #Todd Seminary for Boys #something highbrow #1933 World’s Fair #malvolio #film #shakespeare on film #Youtube

[queerhamlet]

I would be great as Malvolio because I'm great at being a straight man.

I would be great as Viola because I'm awful at being a straight man.

#twelfth night #malvolio #viola/ceasario #og

[butchhamlet]

In many of his plays Shakespeare manifests keen interest in the psychological mechanism by which people project their faults onto others, and the way uniting against a despised “outsider” can help a community cohere more tightly. Thus in The Merchant of Venice, the Christians revile the Jew Shylock, whose bald pursuit of self-interest and refusal to mix financial arrangements with friendship lay bare unwelcome truths about their own handling of money. Likewise the prim Malvolio, in Twelfth Night, is treated as a madman for having dared to imagine for himself the social advancement through marriage which the glamorous twins Sebastian and Viola actually achieve. The residents of Windsor humiliate Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, for thinking that he can trade sex for money, even while Ann’s parents plan to marry her off to one of her wealthy suitors rather than to the man she loves. Don John, the scheming bastard in Much Ado About Nothing, embodies the possibility of extramarital sexual activity, the prospect of which triggers so much of the suspicion and pain in the play. In all these cases the scapegoat is indeed guilty, sometimes murderously so. Yet the community’s investment in punishing him seems excessive, in a way that exposes its hypocrisy or blindness to its own motives.

-- Katharine Eisaman Maus, from the Norton Shakespeare’s Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy

#max.txt #to the people who sent me asks whether it was today or a month ago. soon i promise. when my brain works again #merchant of venice #twelfth night #malvolio #merry wives #much ado

[sparklyshakespeare]

hate going to halloween parties wdym you’re “malvolio if he slayed” *just a teeny bit harder than already (SORRY MALVOLIO STANS) (it’s me i’m him)

#shakespeare #twelfth night #malvolio

[malvoliosyellowstockings]

i honestly can’t tell what’s gayer: liking the twelfth night plot that includes clearly gay undertones, comments on gender, and bisexuality. OR liking the plot that’s a bunch of drunk guys just ruining some guys life because they don’t like them. both are gay though

#twelfth night #shakespeare #viola twelfth night #duke orsino #olivia twelfth night #sebastian twelfth night #antonio twelfth night #malvolio #sir toby belch #sir andrew aguecheek #feste twelfth night #maria twelfth night

[lucky-numberme]

please someone let me play transmasc malvolio. just a toxic, puritanical trans man constantly daydreaming of smooching his boss and being a bitch to everyone else. just a "queer rights but only for me" kinda guy. really makes him hating cesario even more potent, bc by the end, he knows that Olivia is into genderfuckery, just not him. absolute wet cat of a man. do you see my vision. let me play him.

#I've been in twelfth night like 4 times but no one has ever cast me as malvolio bc no one has been brave or right enough yet #I didnt survive classical drama school and a shakespeare degree to never play trans malvolio #lucky rambles #malvolio #twelfth night

[palaeoplushies]

Character art!!! Very rare from me. It's Malvolio he's my blorbo son. He hits people with his magic bass which he uses to channel fire magic. He's a jerk. He looks like a faun but he's a post-human from spaaaaace

#my blorbo #Malvolio #character art #character

[wordpainterpixie]

Malvolio, in yellow stockings, cross-gartered: I came out here to have a good time and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now.

#twelfth night #incorrect quotes #twelfth night incorrect quotes #malvolio