Shakespeare plays MALVOLIO, a servant

Illustration: Shakespeare plays Malvolio dressed in Elizabethan style, wearing bright yellow stockings with red cross-garters. He looks confident, standing with one hand jauntily on his hip

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The vain and snobbish Malvolio has been tricked into believing that his employer Olivia is in love with him, and now confidently anticipates his marriage into the nobility.
Twelfth Night
Act 3 Scene 4

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What Maria said
about Malvolio:

"So crammed (as
he thinks) with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him, love him."

Twelfth Night
Act 2 Scene 3