Needs a bit of correction C+, grammatical mistakes, needs more points on Malevolio as a buffon A fool can be defined in many meanings according to the Oxford English Dictionary On Historical Principles. The word could mean 'a silly person', or 'one who professionally counterfeits folly for the entertainment of others, a jester, clown' or 'one who has little or no reason or intellect' or 'one who is made to appear to be a fool' (…showed first 75 words of 1322 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1322 total…the ones that control the comedy and humor in the play. They assist in the make believe game and fool around with characters who 'evade reality or rather realize a dream'. In Twelfth Night, Feste, Maria and Sir Toby are the fools that make the comedy work in many senses. They create the confusion through humor and it all works out in the end to make William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night a really funny Elizabethan play.