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Twelfth Night (Dir. Tim Supple, UK, 2003)

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This entry examines Tim Supple’s 2003 television adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (1602), focusing on its multiracial cast, its inclusion of dialogue in Hindi, and its portrayal of immigration. The film was commissioned for students by the British television network ITV, and it was accompanied by a documentary and an educational supplement. The film departs from other cinematic adaptations of Twelfth Night by presenting Sebastian and Viola as immigrants who seek refuge in Illyria after a violent coup forces them to leave their home country. It features a multiracial cast, including a Black British Orsino (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and British Asian Viola (Parminder Nagra), Sebastian (Ronny Jhutti), and Feste (Zubin Varla), who perform alongside white actors in the roles of Olivia (Claire Price), Sir Toby (David Troughton), and Malvolio (Michael Maloney). Tim Supple’s Twelfth Nightparticipates in the early twenty-first-century vogue for multicultural Shakespeare...

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Further Reading

  • Greenhalgh, Susanne, and Robert Shaughnessy. 2006. Our Shakespeares: British television and the strains of multiculturalism. In Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

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    Maya Mathur

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Mathur, M. (2021). Twelfth Night (Dir. Tim Supple, UK, 2003). In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99378-2_17-2

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99378-2_17-2

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