Twelfth Night to be her brother Sebastian, and a girl named Olivia falls in love with Viola as Sebastian. She also goes to a restaurant named "Cesario's". Two of Duke's Illyria soccer teammates are named Andrew and Toby. A nod is given to the omitted subplot by naming a briefly-onscreen tarantula Malvolio. Sebastian’s ex-girlfriend Monique was given the surname Valentine, and the meddling Malcolm was given the surname Festes. "Shakespeare in Love" contains several references to "Twelfth Night". Near the end of the movie, Elizabeth I (Judi Dench) asks Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) to write a comedy for the Twelfth Night holiday. Shakespeare's
Shakespeare in Love an actress who is playing Richard III. The writers of "Shakespeare in Love" were sued in 1999 by bestselling author Faye Kellerman. She claimed that the plotline was stolen from her 1989 novel "The Quality of Mercy", in which Shakespeare romances a Jewish woman who dresses as a man, and attempts to solve a murder. Miramax Films spokesman Andrew Stengel derided the claim, filed in the US District Court six days before the 1999 Academy Awards, as "absurd", and argued that the timing "suggests a publicity stunt". An out-of-court settlement was reached but the sum agreed between the parties indicates