Shakespeare In Love

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I saw it last week at school (we've just studyed Elizabethan Theatre) and I found it fascinating... Despite the plot wasn't easy, the director made a great film of it... What do you think about it?

Nona the brit · Accepted Answer

A nice piece of buffoonery, some great acting (but not all), and they looked like they had a lot of fun making it. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Julielai · Answer

What I want to know is why Colin Firth plays the cuck - old (in case it gets censored) or the jilted so often.

Shakespeare in Love, English Patient, Madame Bovary, Love Actually (started off that way), Trauma...

Eire · Answer

I like the film, especially those details when you watch it carefully. Have you noticed them?

YoHf · Answer

Which?

Eire · Answer

For example, at the beginning, in Will's room, you can see a mug as a souvenir from Stratford-upon-Avon. And I don't remember because I watched the film a long time ago, but there are many details.

Little Cloud · Answer

I also liked that movie so much and I also liked Joseph Finnes. Sometimes, his expressions really touched my heart. Delicious!

YoHf · Answer

Adrenochrome · Answer

A classic chick flick, but with no historical merit. It won't help with your understanding of Elizabethan Theatre because it was written in the 1990s, for a 1990s audience, and with 1990s morality. Shakespeare supposedly had two wives, and famously left his first wife his second best bed, in his will. However, there is no divorce document, which means that his marriage to Anne Hathaway would have been bygamous, illegal and offensive to the monarch. He would have been imprisoned. Also, he did not write anything till 1993 when his sonnets were produced. These sonnets are adaptations of sonnets by Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe had also published a play about a previous English monarch (Edward II), Judaism (the Jew of Malta) and historical text (Tamburlaine the Great). Shakespeare wrote plays based in Europe (where Marlowe was a regular court visitor, being a Catholic he could come and go freely in the CAtholic courts of Europe) and particularly the Med, though had never left England. Shakespeare wrote of previous monarchs, Judaism and retold European stories (read Boccaccio). Marlowe is supposed to have been killed by a close friend over a lunch bill in 1993. Could Marlowe's friends have killed Will Shakespeare (little known London actor) and Marlowe, having taking his identity, moved to a house OUTSIDE Stratford and married the Catholic Hathaway girl. Obviously, some people in Stratford would recognise that the man living as Shakespeare was not he, which explains why he didn't live in Stratford, return to his wife or visit his family!!!

And they say that Americans invented the conspiracy theory - pah! We've had them for centuries.

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