Joseph Fiennes
William Shakespeare
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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.
- $289.3 million
- Stephen Warbeck
- $25 million
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.
- (231K)
- Comedy, Drama, History
- John Madden
- 1999-01-08
"Shakespeare in Love" is a romantic comedy for the 1990s set in the 1590s. It imaginatively unfolds the witty, sexy and timeless tale behind the creation of the greatest love story ever...
- (6.9K)
- John Madden
- R
- Joseph Fiennes
Shakespeare in Love, American-British film, released in 1998, that was a lighthearted and clever imagining of how William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet came to be written and produced.
- Pat Bauer
Dec 25, 1998 · Roger Ebert December 25, 1998. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. There is a boatman in "Shakespeare in Love" who ferries Shakespeare across the Thames while bragging, "I had Christopher Marlowe in my boat once." As Shakespeare steps ashore, the boatman tries to give him a script to read.
William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is a poor playwright for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of The Rose Theatre, in 1593 London. After learning that his love was cheating on him with his patron, Shakespeare burns his new comedy, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter, rewriting it as the tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
