“It will make a beautiful memento for this occasion,” he said, passing the volume to an aide, who promptly vanished. Macbeth is among the 18 plays that would have been lost to history without the Folio. Paul, who didn’t hear her request, misread the situation. Would the pontiff be willing to bless the book, she asked? This particular volume belonged to the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Tutin had carried it with her to the Vatican in preparation for this moment. Orsino is furious when he finds out but, once Viola and Sebastian meet and reveal their true identities, there is a happy ending – for everyone but poor Malvolio.When three Shakespearean actors performed at the Vatican in 1964, the stakes were high: Among the 2,000 observers packed into the auditorium were cardinals, dignitaries and even Pope Paul VI, who looked on from a raised chair.Īfter the show, one of the actors, Dorothy Tutin, approached the pope clutching a rare copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, the earliest collection of the Bard’s plays ever published. When she sees Sebastian, who has survived the shipwreck, she naturally thinks he is Cesario and promptly marries him. They convince Malvolio that Olivia is in love with him and make him look extremely foolish – Olivia thinks her servant has actually gone mad. Meanwhile Olivia’s steward, Malvolio, is trying to keep order in the house but, her uncle Sir Toby Belch and his friends have other ideas. Orsino sends Viola to Olivia to try and win her round but, thinking Viola is a boy, Olivia falls in love with him. She also discovers that Orsino has fallen in love with Olivia but, following the death of her brother, she rejects him. She falls in love with him but cannot do anything about it because of her disguise.
The twins Viola and Sebastian are separated in a shipwreck.įearing that Sebastian is dead, Viola disguises herself as a boy, calls herself Cesario and takes up service with Duke Orsino.
An animated version of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” in a retelling of the classic play set to modern music.
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