Twelfth Night; or, don't buy a cow if you're from out of town and the farmer gives you a family discount
Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo . In the foreword to Lolita, Nabokov lampoons those " old-fashioned readers who wish to follow the destinies of 'real' people beyond the 'true' story". Misguided as I might be, I've always wanted to know what happens after Twelfth Night . Does Feste ever return to Olivia's? Does Malvolio continue his Puritanical reign in a different household? Can Viola's mercurial grace satisfy Orsino's fickleness? But the question that keeps buzzing around my head is this: what about Sebastian and Olivia? A couple of spares, auxiliary yet too important to leave unwed. Why not pair them? Olivia's beautiful, Sebastian notes, and —whatever her temporary madness in loving him—evidently clever enough to run a household. A lovely prize for any man in Illyria. Oh, Sebastian, a good hanging prevents not all bad marriages. Will her love outlast each time you speak to her, when she hears Cesario's voice,...