Sir Toby Belch - wikipedia Sir Toby Belch Sir Toby Belch Twelfth Night character Oil painting of Sir Toby Belch painted by George Henry Hall Created by William Shakespeare Source Gl'ingannati Information Family Olivia ( niece ) Associate ( s ) Sir Andrew Aguecheek Role Secondary Character Sir Toby Belch is a character in William Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night. Contents 1 Character 2 See also 3 Notes 4 References Character He is considered one of William Shakespeare 's finest characters, an ambiguous mix of high spirits and low cunning. He first appears in the play 's third scene, when he storms onto the stage the morning after a hard night out, complaining about the sombre melancholy that hangs over his niece 's household. `` What a plague means my niece to take the death of her brother thus ? I 'm sure care 's an enemy to life. '' This immediately establishes Sir Toby at the opposite pole from the languishing melancholy which dominated the first scene ( including Orsino 's speech, `` If music be the food of love... '' ), identifying him as a force for vitality, noise and good cheer, as his name suggests. But it also raises the question of how far the audience is expected to sympathize with him. Is his criticism of his niece a justified statement of the old truism that `` life must go on '', or an insensitive blunder by a hungover old drunkard ? At the beginning Sir Toby appears to be friends with another character, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a guest of Olivia, Sir Toby 's niece. However as the play progresses, it transpires that Sir Toby is just taking advantage of Sir Andrew 's riches, one of the more sinister plots of the generally comedic play. His tormenting of the steward Malvolio is similarly double - edged in its tone of `` sportful malice '' ( V, 1 ). The plot against Malvolio is generally considered a comic highlight of the play, but critics have often complained of its cruelty. The play ends with the quarrel still unresolved, and Olivia warning that Malvolio `` hath been most notoriously abused '' ( V, 1 ). Whatever his faults, no character study can accuse Sir Toby of snobbishness. Though he taunts Malvolio with the demand `` Art any more than a steward ? '' ( II, 3 ), he only does so after Malvolio has threatened him with being turned out if he does n't reform his ways. Indeed part of Malvolio 's complaint is that Sir Toby and his companions are not acting like noblemen by drinking and singing but like `` tinkers '' in an `` alehouse ''. His appreciation of Maria pronounced ( Mariah ), though couched in terms that might not please every woman : `` She 's a beagle, true - bred '' ( II, 3 ), and eventual marriage, shows that he thinks his title of no particular account compared to his love for her. He is in the play Twelfth Night. See also Twelfth Night Characters in the Twelfth Night Characters in Works of Shakespeare Notes Jump up ^ See the discussion in William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or What you Will, ed. by Keir Elam ( London : Arden, 2008 ), pp. 8 - 9. References Guide to Twelfth Night Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night, or What You Will Analysis of Major Characters in Twelfth Night Synopsis of Twelfth Night Summary of Twelfth Night and Characters William Shakespeare Plays Tragedies Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Comedies All 's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love 's Labour 's Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night 's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre * The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen * The Winter 's Tale Histories King John Edward III * Richard II Henry IV Henry V Henry VI 1 * Richard III Henry VIII * See also Problem plays Late romances Characters A -- K L -- Z Ghost character Chronology Performances Settings Quarto publications First Folio Second Folio Poems Shakespeare 's sonnets comparison to Petrarch A Lover 's Complaint The Phoenix and the Turtle The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis Apocrypha Plays Arden of Faversham The Birth of Merlin Cardenio * Double Falsehood Edmund Ironside Fair Em Locrine The London Prodigal Love 's Labour 's Won The Merry Devil of Edmonton Mucedorus The Puritan The Second Maiden 's Tragedy Sejanus His Fall Sir John Oldcastle Sir Thomas More * The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Lord Cromwell Thomas of Woodstock Vortigern and Rowena A Yorkshire Tragedy Poems The Passionate Pilgrim To the Queen Life and works Birthplace and childhood home Bibliography Complete Works of William Shakespeare Translations Early editions Editors English Renaissance theatre Globe Theatre Handwriting Lord Chamberlain 's Men / King 's Men The Theatre Curtain Theatre New Place Portraits Religious views Sexuality Spelling of his name Stratford - upon - Avon Style Legacy Attribution studies Authorship question Influence Memorials Screen adaptations Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare Quarterly Shakespeare 's Globe ( replica ) Bardolatry Titles of works taken from Shakespeare Family Anne Hathaway ( wife ) Susanna Hall ( daughter ) Hamnet Shakespeare ( son ) Judith Quiney ( daughter ) Elizabeth Barnard ( granddaughter ) John Shakespeare ( father ) Mary Arden ( mother ) Gilbert Shakespeare ( brother ) Joan Shakespeare ( sister ) Edmund Shakespeare ( brother ) Richard Shakespeare ( grandfather ) John Hall ( son - in - law ) Thomas Quiney ( son - in - law ) Thomas Nash ( grandson - in - law ) * Shakespeare and other authors Lost William Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night Characters Viola Orsino Olivia Sebastian Malvolio Maria Sir Toby Belch Sir Andrew Aguecheek Feste On screen 1933 1955 1966 1980 ( TV ) 1986 1988 ( TV ) 1992 ( TV ) Musical Your Own Thing ( 1968 ) Music Is ( 1976 ) Play On ! ( 1997 ) Illyria ( 2004 ) All Shook Up ( 2004 ) Adaptations Just One of the Guys ( 1985 ) Motocrossed ( 2001 ) She 's the Man ( 2006 ) Dil Bole Hadippa ! ( 2009 ) Opera Viola ( unfinished ) Story within a story `` Grace '' ( 2011 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir_Toby_Belch&oldid=827480793 '' Categories : Characters in Twelfth Night Fictional knights Male Shakespearean characters Hidden categories : Pages using deprecated image syntax Articles using Infobox character with multiple unlabeled fields Articles with specifically marked weasel - worded phrases from December 2014 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 24 February 2018, at 23 : 38. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. 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Question: who does sir toby marry in twelfth night
Answer: Maria pronounced (Mariah)