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Synopsis. 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.
Jan 29, 1998 · Summary. It is the summer of 1593, and the rising young star of London's theater scene, Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes), faces a scourge like no other: a paralyzing bout of writer's block. What ...
Feb 6, 2015 · Shakespeare in Love was a hit on its release in December 1998, bringing in $100 million at the box office in the United States and another $189 million overseas. The critics loved it, including Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times who wrote that its modern humor mixed with the Elizabethan era "makes the movie play like a contest between ...
Matt Soergel Florida Times-Union. There's so much to like about this film, which is giddily romantic, funny and clever, chock-full of Shakespearean touches like doomed love, mistaken identity and ...
Apr 26, 2011 · It is about a fictional love affair between Shakespeare & his love for a woman who desires to be an actress. In Elizabethan Times females were not allowed to act on stage, & their roles were played by males. The plot of the romance is an inter-play with the play he is writing - Romeo & Juliet. It is well done & very cleverly presented.
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Available on Prime Video, Hulu, Max. When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry ...
Academy Award (1999) Golden Globe Award (1999) 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. The movie, which satirizes theatre life and plays with what is known and what is unknown about ...
