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Sir Toby Belch + Andrew Aguecheek + Maria, Link love pot / comic plots,…
Sir Toby Belch + Andrew Aguecheek + Maria
Sir Toby
boastful, drunken braggart
Belch - earthy nature
spirit of Twelfth Night
rejection of constraint
pleasure-seeking revelling + over-indulgence
bully, cheat, liar, cruel practical joker
hypocrite
conscious of his social standing compared to Olivia
brave + witty
related to Olivia
relies on Olivia's goodwill
exploits Andrew Aguecheek
marries Maria
jollity - over-compensation for a man who lost a nephew and a brother
little regard for other characters
elevated diction 'cubiculo', 'encounter', 'consanguinous' = man of learning
ironic
punished at the end - wounded by Sebastian
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
traditional 'gull'
rich buffon
foolishness
melancholy lover
grip of illusion
thinks of himself as a lover/scholar/skilled duellist
self-perception exposed as a delusion
slow-witted, cowardly and quarrelsome
no voice and opinions of his own
repeats words of Sir Toby
love shadows Orsino's (Olivia)
foolish, simple-minded, stupid, jealous, weak, gullible
Maria
"She's a beagle, true bred, and one that adores me." - Sir Toby
"Here comes my noble gull-catcher." - Fabian
cunning, clever
leads all the others - orchestrates everyhting
"I could marry this wench for this device-" - Sir Toby
Key quotes
'Confine? I'll confine myself no finer than I am' (I.3)
"In recompense whereof he hath married her" - Fabian (5.1)
"I'll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat"
"Art any more than a steward?" (2.3)
"What a plague means my niece" (1.3)
key quotes
'I was adored once, too." (2.3)
'I knew 'twas I, for many do call me fool.' (2.5)
"dormhouse valour" - Sir Toby (3.2)
"all the good gifts of nature", "tall a man as any" - Sir Toby
"foolish knight", "drunk nightly", "gift of a grave" - Maria
"By my troth, I would not undertake her in this company."
"I'll get 'em all three all ready." (3.1)
"it rather consists of eating and drinking (2.2)
Key quotes
'Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling' (2.5)
"What a caterwauling do you keep here!" (2.3)
"he is a kind of puritan." (2.3) + "The devil a puritan that he is"
"this letter will make a contemplative idiot of him." (2.5)
"I have dogged him like his murderer." (3.2)
"He is sure possessed, madam." (3.4)
"make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate." (4.2)
"you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order" (1.3)
Link love pot / comic plots
Sir Toby takes his money
Characters used to make audience laugh + flawed
admiration - plotting against Malvolio
aware of his limitations in wit and as a wooer