Viola, passionate about the theater at a time when women were forbidden from the stage, disguises herself as a man named "Thomas Kent" to audition for and join Will’s company.
The film is packed with "in-jokes" for theater fans and literary references, portraying Elizabethan London's theater scene as a chaotic, business-driven world. Shakespeare_in_Love_1998
Their real-world romance mirrors the tragedy they are performing; Shakespeare is already married, and Viola is betrothed to the cold Lord Wessex (Colin Firth). Viola, passionate about the theater at a time
Suffering from severe writer's block while trying to pen "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) finds new inspiration in Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow). Suffering from severe writer's block while trying to
Released in December 1998, is a romantic comedy-drama that imagines a fictional love affair between a young William Shakespeare and a noblewoman named Viola de Lesseps. Directed by John Madden and co-written by playwright Tom Stoppard , the film uses this romance as the supposed inspiration for the writing of Romeo and Juliet . Plot and Themes