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Charles Lamb on the character of Malvolio (c. 1823?).
He's sold me on this interpretation. Not that it was a hard sell (it should surprise no one that I was already severely leaning this way).
A quote from Nilo Cruz, Cuban-American playwright, whose work Night Train to Bolina I enthusiastically commend to The Internet:
I believe that a writer has to step into the threshold of the soul and the heart to reveal the darkest dimensions of the spirit and confess the deepest sentiments, to describe the passions and ideas of hers/his characters, to open the door of absolute truth. To me arts yearns for the ideal, and my work aspires to arrest the beautiful--and as an artist I humbly submit to that ultimate yearning.
A quote from Pedro R. Monge-Rafuls, Cuban [-American? From what little there is to read of him, it seems he might debate that title] playwright, whose monologue Trash I lately read (emphases mine):
My interest is to write about oppression... I don't describe myself as a political writer, but my work is a result of political situations... Beauty is a very relative concept. The beauty of my writing is to express things, create characters and/or situations that through their images create thought. If this is achieved then the image created is beautiful, even though it is rough or cruel.
He's sold me on this interpretation. Not that it was a hard sell (it should surprise no one that I was already severely leaning this way).
A quote from Nilo Cruz, Cuban-American playwright, whose work Night Train to Bolina I enthusiastically commend to The Internet:
I believe that a writer has to step into the threshold of the soul and the heart to reveal the darkest dimensions of the spirit and confess the deepest sentiments, to describe the passions and ideas of hers/his characters, to open the door of absolute truth. To me arts yearns for the ideal, and my work aspires to arrest the beautiful--and as an artist I humbly submit to that ultimate yearning.
A quote from Pedro R. Monge-Rafuls, Cuban [-American? From what little there is to read of him, it seems he might debate that title] playwright, whose monologue Trash I lately read (emphases mine):
My interest is to write about oppression... I don't describe myself as a political writer, but my work is a result of political situations... Beauty is a very relative concept. The beauty of my writing is to express things, create characters and/or situations that through their images create thought. If this is achieved then the image created is beautiful, even though it is rough or cruel.
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