'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit'- Actor explains Feste from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Описание: Our founder, Mingma, takes you through the things to consider when playing Feste from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (or What You Will), including the wider background context of Fools in general, the part within the general Shakespeare cannon and a line by line analysis of monologue.

The full text discussed is:
Feste: Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!
Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft
prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may
pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'
God bless thee, lady!
[...]
Olivia: Go to, you're a dry fool; I'll no more of you:
besides, you grow dishonest.

Feste: Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel
will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is
the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend
himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if
he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Any thing
that's mended is but patched: virtue that
transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that
amends is but patched with virtue. If that this
simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not,
what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but
calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take
away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away.

This video is part of the lockdown 'Playing the Fool' video series. Tune in over the coming weeks to see 5 female actors take on 5 of Shakespeare's most famous fools.

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