Will Shakespeare is suffering from writer's block and has not completed the play, but begins auditions for Romeo. This play will later be renamed " Romeo and Juliet" and be reworked into a tragedy (but with some comical undertones with a few characters, like the Nurse). Henslowe offers Fennyman a partnership in the upcoming production of Shakespeare's newest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, The Pirate's Daughter" promising that it will be a hit. The film centres around the forbidden love of William Shakespeare ( Joseph Fiennes) and a noble woman, Viola de Lesseps ( Gwyneth Paltrow).Īs the film begins, Shakepeare's patron Philip Henslowe ( Geoffrey Rush) finds himself in debt to loan shark Hugh Fennyman ( Tom Wilkinson). Moreover, Wessex and Viola would not have gone to Virginia instead, Wessex would have had a surrogate run his plantations. There were neither tobacco plantations nor English colonies in America in the 1590s. The characters of Philip Henslowe, Richard Burbage, Ned Alleyn, Will Kempe, Edmund Tylney, Augustine Philips, John Hemmings (spelled in real life as "John Heminge"), George Bryan, Christopher Marlowe (played in an uncredited cameo by Rupert Everett), and John Webster did exist, but their actions in the film are fictitious. The characters of Ralph Bashford, James Hemmings, Edward Pope, Sam Gosse, James Armitage, Viola de Lesseps, Robert de Lesseps, Lady de Lesseps, Hugh Fennyman, and Lord Wessex did not exist.
The film features many comic anachronisms: a psychotherapist a mug marked "A present from Stratford-on-Avon" Shakespeare leaping into a ferry and saying "Follow that boat!" Queen Elizabeth I remarking "Have a care with my name or you will wear it out" and Shakespeare anticipating the phrase " The show must go on!" The basis of "Romeo and Juliet", for example, was a poem and not one of Shakespeare's romances. The film makes no pretense at historical accuracy.
It was the first comedy to win the Best Picture award since " Annie Hall" (1977) and no comedy has won the award since. "Shakespeare in Love" won a number of Academy Awards in 1999, including Best Picture, Best Actress (for Gwyneth Paltrow) and Best Supporting Actress (for Judi Dench). In addition, many of the characters, lines, and plot devices are references to Shakespeare's plays. The film is largely fictional, although several of the characters are based on real people. The film was directed by John Madden and co-written by playwright Tom Stoppard, whose first major success was with the Shakespeare-influenced play " Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead". "Shakespeare in Love" is a 1998 romantic comedy/ drama film. Flagicon|USA 11 December 1998 ( New York City Los Angeles)įlagicon|USA (nation wide) 8 January 1999
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