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"This comedy shows fools in love and the kind of folly we may commit in romantic attractions.
Feste is a chorus to this comedy of lovers; he comments wittily to lovers about their amorous
excesses, not that they listen to him. A beggar, he cadges money from them. Orsino & Viola/Cesario, Oiliva & Sebastian, Toby & Maria, even the losers in love, Malvolio & Andrew are possessed
by love's madness.
Many scholars have speculated where Illyria might be. Two references in the text to Persia
suggested that exotic place in 1601 where four Elizabethans might be shipwrecked. Why not?
Love's folly is universal, after all."
~Edgar Reynolds, Director