Clearly a lot of drinking occurs in Twelfth Night thanks to Sir Toby and Sir Andrew. Using the concordance I've found a fair amount of references to 'drunk' 'drink' and 'drinking' so far.
Act 1, Scene 3
MARIA They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company.
Act 1, Scene 5
OLIVIA By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin?
Act 5, Scene 1
SIR TOBY BELCH Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am:
these clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be
these boots too: an they be not, let them hang
themselves in their own straps.
MARIA That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard
my lady talk of it yesterday; and of a foolish
knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer.
SIR TOBY BELCH With drinking healths to my niece: I'll drink to
her as long as there is a passage in my throat and
drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill
that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn
o' the toe like a parish-top. What, wench!
Castiliano vulgo! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface.
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Matt, for me I found myself looking into more of the deception aspect of the play. I found some references to "disguise" "lies" and "secrets" mostly. But along the lines of what you found I also found some as well pertaining to "joy" and "foolery". However, my thought is that this play mostly revolves around deception with a lighter side into the drinking and joyfulness that we often see in Sir Toby and Sir Andrew.
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