Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1980 TV), Act 3, scene 1

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Felicity Kendal ... Viola
Trevor Peacock ... Feste
Ronnie Stevens ... Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Robert Hardy ... Sir Toby Belch
Sinéad Cusack ... Olivia

Feste is a prime example of what Robert Goldsmith called Shakespeare's "Wise Fools". Notice the extra care Viola takes choosing words in the play after Feste takes witty advantage of her careless language in this scene.

Director: John Gorrie

the parents of Felicity Kendal used to run a touring Shakespeare company in India.

Trevor Peacock wrote the 60s hit single "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter", recorded by Herman's Hermits.

The fine character actor Robert Hardy is best known from TV appearances as Siegfried Farnon in "All Creatures Great and Small" (1978) and his critically acclaimed performances as Winston Churchill.

Katharine Hepburn told her friend and biographer that Sinéad Cusack was "the real McCoy - one of the most exciting actors I've ever seen".

info from imdb.com

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from C.L Barber's "Shakespeare's Festive Comedy" (1959):

Throughout the play a contrast is maintained between the taut, restless, elegant court, where people speak a nervous verse, and the free-wheeling household of Olivia, where, except for the intense moments in Olivia's amorous interviews with Cesario, people live in an easy-going prose. The contrast is another version of pastoral. The household is more than any one person in it. People keep interrupting each other, changing their minds, letting their talk run out into foolishness--and through it all Shakespeare expresses the day-by-day going on of a shared life:

Maria. Nay, either tell me where thou hast been, or I will not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter in way of thy excuse (I.v.1-3)

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[bookstar77]

ShakespeareAndMore, can we soon expect the entirety of this version of Twelfth Night on YouTube? Felicity Kendal is fabulous, as is the rest of the cast.

Please, bring us the whole version of this 1980 version as soon as possible. Thank you in advance.

[ShakespeareAndMore]

Nope! So Sorry! Only extracts I have/will upload of this production. It has two copyrite owners, and they are trying to sell DVDs of these productions in regular commercial markets.

[hangingrock57]

OMG!! The gentleman is the NONONONONONO guy from Vicar of Dibley!

[bookstar77]

Okay then. Thanks for the info, as well as what you have put up on YouTube.

[mboughan1]

I dont think Ive seen a better written and grammatically correct collection of comments anywhere in all of You Tube! God Save the Queen's English! :)

[SorchaNoir]

@ShakespeareAndMore

I'm trying to write a paper for English based on this version of Twelfth Night. By not having all of this film, you have made it very difficult for me. Not that it's your fault. I felt the need to complain to someone.

[er10b]

Who played Maria? She sounds and acts like that chick who played the White Witch in BBC's 1988 production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

[TheTrafiz]

is the female actor at the beggining, the same actor who plays the wife in the TV series 'Good Life' ?

[santajimi]

@hangingrock57 No no no no no no no no no no no  yes.

[razjk]

They really downplayed the attraction Olivia has for Viola. Now it's much more heightened and obvious.

[villiparis]

you need to buy the bbc shakespeare series box set, you might find it on amazon but its rare, its a no nonsense word for word adaptation of all his plays