Twelfth Night (1969) - Sir Ralph Richardson, part 5 of 10

this extract starts with Act II, scene iv, line 87 or so (Viola: Sooth, but you must!), then fades to a bit of the Sebastian/Antonio dialogue from Act I, scene one, then to Act II, scene five--Malvolio reading the letter, to line 157 (The Pelican Shakespeare)

link below to a single playlist of all 10 parts of this "Twelfth Night":
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7F429A373BCAC12F

Gary Raymond ... Orsino, Duke of Illyria
Joan Plowright ... Viola and Sebastian
Richard Leech ... Antonio
Tommy Steele ... Feste
Ralph Richardson ... Sir Toby Belch
Alec Guinness ... Malvolio
John Moffatt ... Sir Andrew Aguecheek

some marvelous performances here!

Directed by John Sichel...unfortunately the play has been cut extensively, to fit the TV broadcast time slot.


In faith they are as true of heart, as we.
My Father had a daughter lou'd a man
As it might be perhaps, were I a woman
I fhould your Lordfhip.

Duke. And what's her hiftory ?

Viola. A blanke my Lord : fhe neuer told her loue

of these lines William Hazlitt writes: The great and secret charm of Twelfth Night is the character of Viola. Much as we like catches and cakes and ale, there is something we like better. We have a friendship for Sir Toby ; we patronise Sir Andrew ; we have an understanding with the Clown, a sneaking kindness for Maria and her rogueries ; we feel a regard for Malvolio, and sympathise with his gravity, his smiles, his cross-garters, his yellow-stockings and his imprisonment in the stocks. [?] But there is something that excites in us a stronger feeling than all this, — it is Viola's confession of her love.

What we so much admire here is not the image of Patience on a monument, which has been generally quoted, but the lines before and after it. ' They give a very echo to the seat where love is throned.' How long ago it is since we first learned to repeat them ; and still, still they vibrate on the heart, like the sounds which the passing wind draws from the trembling strings of a harp left on some desert shore!

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[2007chika2007]

thanks this great!

[rosebud066]

wickeeddd.

my school has to do this for english.

[ReversibleMac]

Joan Plowright - the plainest, dreariest Viola imaginable.

[al1936ful]

What is that green line on the left? Is that part of the DVD?

[femaletenorsax]

this is exactly what i was looking for to help me with my scene in english! nice!

[Sgtfluffball]

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