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Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 period romantic comedy film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, and produced by Harvey Weinstein. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench .
By Vanessa Hunt. Tom Stoppard, Marc Norman, and Lee Hall took very different paths to becoming part of the writing team for the theatrical play Shakespeare in Love.
Writer Marc Norman, inspired by a suggestion from one of his sons, began writing a script for Shakespeare in Love in the late 1980s and sold it to Universal Pictures. The studio then brought in playwright Tom Stoppard to add to the script.
- Pat Bauer
Jan 12, 1999 · ''Shakespeare in Love,'' a film with a screenplay by Mr. Stoppard and Marc Norman, is about how Shakespeare wrote ''Romeo and Juliet,'' or, rather, how he should have written ''Romeo and Juliet.''
Marc Norman and renowned dramatist, Tom Stoppard have created the best screenplay of the year according to the Golden Globes and the New York Film Critics Circle.
- Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
- Miamax, 1998
- illustrated
- Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay
Jan 8, 1999 · Shakespeare in Love: Directed by John Madden. With Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Steven O'Donnell, Tim McMullan. The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
Dec 25, 1998 · The screenplay is by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, whose play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" approached "Hamlet" from the points of view of two minor characters. "Shakespeare in Love" is set in late Elizabethan England (the queen, played as a young woman by Cate Blanchett in " Elizabeth ," is played as an old one here by Judi Dench ).
