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Comedy Also

But "Twelfth Night" is also a
comedy of "human temperaments."
The sub-plot of Malvolio
and Feste and Sir Toby Belch is a
broadly funny and pointed farce
while at the same time a purifying
agent and parody of the main
action. The play works on many
levels, and Mr. Miller does not
neglect the comic.

This apprehension of the play
seems to preview a production
which is capable of preserving some
of the most beautiful poetry
Shakespeare wrote, and its sweet
melancholy, while at the same time
freeing the chaotic sense of misrule
and farce.