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In 1593 London, William Shakespeare is a sometime player in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and playwright for Philip Henslowe, owner of The Rose Theatre.Suffering from writer's block with a new comedy, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter, Shakespeare attempts to seduce Rosaline, mistress of Richard Burbage, owner of the rival Curtain Theatre, and to convince Burbage to buy the play from Henslowe.
Shakespeare in Love is the original soundtrack album, on the Sony Classical label, of the 1998 Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning film Shakespeare in Love, starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow (who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as "Viola De Lesseps" in this film), Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Imelda Staunton, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench (who won the ...
[102] [103] John Madden's 1998 Shakespeare in Love depicts Shakespeare's process in composing Romeo and Juliet against the backdrop of his own doomed love affair. Writers Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard exploited another commonplace of Shakespeare-related films, which scholar Tony Howard describes as the "playing Shakespeare is a gateway to self ...
Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar for best actress thanks to her role in “Shakespeare in Love,” but it was Julia Roberts who was originally courted for the role of Viola de Lesseps. Producer ...
Love’s Labour’s Lost features the longest scene in all of Shakespeare's plays (5.2), which, depending upon formatting and editorial decisions, ranges from around 920 lines [11] to just over 1000 lines. [12] The First Folio records the scene at 942 lines.
Many directors have taken the view that when Shakespeare wrote a comedy, he did intend there to be a happy ending, and accordingly that is the way the concluding scene should be staged. Elijah Moshinsky in his BBC Television Shakespeare version in 1981 had his Bertram ( Ian Charleson ) give Helena a tender kiss and speak wonderingly.
Decades before Tootsie, Mrs. Doubtfire and Shakespeare in Love played cross-dressing for laughs, Katharine Hepburn was helping to turn drag into a movie art form. In the 1935 romantic comedy ...
'Shakespeare in Love' writer-producer Edward Zwick details Julia Roberts' early involvement in the Oscar-winning film and how she might have sabotaged the film.