I was recently arguing for As You Like It as the least problematic Shakespeare comedy but there are problems with it, as you point out. Phoebe deserves better! But it doesn't have The Problem of Claudio or giving people drugs to make them fall in love with people or making fun of lower-class people doing amateur theatricals.
But anyway, with Twelfth Night the problematicness is mostly in (a) Orsino not thinking much of women (b) the servants torturing Malvolio far beyond the point where it's funny, though sometimes some of that is cut.
I hope you do watch Twelfth Night, it's a treat, though I think best enjoyed when one is approximately twelve years old :-) The 1996 movie is good fun, and the version in the BBC Shakespeare collection is also good. There's also a Branagh version from 1988, which I don't remember that well but reviews say that it's a relatively dark adaption, which sounds right.
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But anyway, with Twelfth Night the problematicness is mostly in (a) Orsino not thinking much of women (b) the servants torturing Malvolio far beyond the point where it's funny, though sometimes some of that is cut.
I hope you do watch Twelfth Night, it's a treat, though I think best enjoyed when one is approximately twelve years old :-) The 1996 movie is good fun, and the version in the BBC Shakespeare collection is also good. There's also a Branagh version from 1988, which I don't remember that well but reviews say that it's a relatively dark adaption, which sounds right.