Or "What? You, Will?" We watched the Branagh telly production of this, with Richard Briers as Malvolio. I vaguely remember seeing other versions in my youth, and still others of about the same vintage as this, and it seems to me, based on these rather tenuous recollections, that a sea-change has come over our perspective on this play. Not so much with the forgettable cross-dressing lovers and mistaken identity business (pirated from the Italian, of course), but with the subplot involving Sir Toby... read more
