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Wise enough to play the fool - Feste and the Fools of Twelfth Night.

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Dec2015 (Volume) 70
Medium (Periodical) E Magazine: the A-level English magazine.
Classif 820 ENG
Subject English literature
Page 48 - 51
Authors Norton, George
Contents

The author uses Mikhail Bakhtin's theories on the figure of the fool to suggest that in a play of foolish characters, Feste is a radical, destabilising, even disturbing, truth-teller.

Keywords
Comedy     William Shakespeare