"Maluolio within": Acting on the Threshold between Onstage and Offstage Spaces.

LONDON (England); ENGLAND

The article discusses the use of the Elizabethan stage direction "within," especially as it illuminates the staging of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and the actions of the character Malvolio. The article considers a number of Elizabethan stage directions. The author concludes that, in the Globe staging, Malvolio may have been imprisoned behind a curtain.