Writing, rehearsals, and the love affair between Viola and Shakespeare continue, but Webster spies on them and alerts Tilney, the Master of the Revels (Simon Callow), that one of the actors is a woman (which is forbidden), and Master Tilney closes the Rose Theatre. Viola is later summoned to an audience with Queen Elizabeth ( Dame Judi Dench), because of her engagement to Wessex, and Elizabeth recognizes her as a fellow theatre enthusiast. After rehearsal, Shakespeare discovers that Kent, the actor playing Romeo, is in fact Viola, and he and Viola begin a love affair as he continues working on the play, which becomes Romeo and Juliet. The next day in the theatre, John Webster (Joe Roberts), who sought the part of Ethel, is dismissed, and the self-important actor Ned Alleyn ( Ben Affleck) is persuaded to play the part of Mercutio. Feeling inspired, Shakespeare then begins writing the play. That night Shakespeare sneaks into a party celebrating Viola’s engagement to Lord Wessex ( Colin Firth), but when Wessex notes the obvious attraction between Shakespeare and Viola, he threatens Shakespeare, who gives his name as Christopher Marlowe and flees the party. Viola’s nurse (Imelda Staunton) accepts a note from Shakespeare for Kent telling him that he has been cast. Shakespeare follows him, unaware that he is in fact a young noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps ( Gwyneth Paltrow), all the way to Viola’s home. Thomas Kent, an actor auditioning for the part of Romeo, impresses Shakespeare but flees the theatre. Henslowe, believing the play to be near completion, holds auditions. Later, in a tavern, another playwright, Christopher Marlowe (Rupert Everett, in an uncredited role) offers Shakespeare suggestions for the play’s plot. Shakespeare, however, is suffering from writer’s block and has written nothing. Henslowe persuades Fennyman that the new comedy being written for him by Will Shakespeare ( Joseph Fiennes), Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter, will bring in enough money to cover the debt. The movie, which satirizes theatre life and plays with what is known and what is unknown about Shakespeare’s life and times, won the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for best film as well as the Golden Globe Award for best comedy or musical.Īs the movie begins, Philip Henslowe (played by Geoffrey Rush), the owner of the Rose Theatre, is being tortured because he owes money to Hugh Fennyman (Tom Wilkinson). 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.
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