Shakespeare In Love

Venus the lady of love inflameth the heart. . . then Cupid her son shooteth his dart, and being blind, some times striketh with his arrow of love, and some time with his arrow of hatred, but at all times so shooteth that his arrows tend to love, in the beginning, though afterwards discords arise betwixt lovers.

The film depicts a fictional love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare (Fiennes) and Viola de Lesseps (Paltrow) while Shakespeare was writing Romeo and Juliet. Several characters are based on historical figures, and many of the characters, lines, and plot devices allude to Shakespeare's plays.

Shakespeare In Love

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Viola is summoned to court to receive approval for her proposed marriage to Wessex. Shakespeare accompanies her, disguised as her nurse's female cousin, and anonymously persuades Wessex in public to wager 50 that a play can capture the true nature of love, the amount Shakespeare requires to buy a share in the Chamberlain's Men. Queen Elizabeth I declares that she will judge the matter.

Burbage learns Shakespeare has seduced Rosaline and cheated him out of payment for the play, and starts a brawl at the Rose with his company. The Rose players repel Burbage and his men and celebrate at the pub, where a drunken Henslowe lets slip to Viola that Shakespeare is married, albeit separated from his wife. News arrives that Marlowe has been murdered. A guilt-ridden Shakespeare assumes Wessex had Marlowe killed, believing him to be Viola's lover, while Viola believes Shakespeare to be the victim. Shakespeare appears at her church, allaying Viola's fears and terrifying Wessex, who believes he is a ghost. Viola confesses her love for Shakespeare, but both recognize she cannot escape her duty to marry Wessex.

John Webster, an unpleasant boy who hangs around the theatre, spies on Shakespeare and Viola making love and informs Tilney, who closes the Rose for breaking the ban on women actors. Viola's identity is exposed, leaving Shakespeare without a stage or a lead actor, until Burbage offers his theatre and the heartbroken Shakespeare takes the role of Romeo. Following her wedding, Viola learns the play will be performed that day, and runs away to the Curtain. She overhears that the boy playing Juliet cannot perform, his voice having broken, and Henslowe asks her to replace him. She plays Juliet to Shakespeare's Romeo to an enthralled audience.

After the film's release, certain publications, including Private Eye, noted strong similarities between the film and the 1941 novel No Bed for Bacon, by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, which also features Shakespeare falling in love and finding inspiration for his later plays. In a foreword to a subsequent edition of No Bed for Bacon (which traded on the association by declaring itself "A Story of Shakespeare and Lady Viola in Love") Ned Sherrin, Private Eye insider and former writing partner of Brahms', confirmed that he had lent a copy of the novel to Stoppard after he joined the writing team,[28] but that the basic plot of the film had been independently developed by Marc Norman, who was unaware of the earlier work.

The film's plot can claim a tradition in fiction reaching back to Alexandre Duval's "Shakespeare amoureux ou la Piece a l'Etude" (1804), in which Shakespeare falls in love with an actress who is playing Richard III.[29]

Roger Ebert, who gave the film four stars out of four, wrote: "The contemporary feel of the humor (like Shakespeare's coffee mug, inscribed 'Souvenir of Stratford-Upon-Avon') makes the movie play like a contest between Masterpiece Theatre and Mel Brooks. Then the movie stirs in a sweet love story, juicy court intrigue, backstage politics and some lovely moments from Romeo and Juliet... Is this a movie or an anthology? I didn't care. I was carried along by the wit, the energy and a surprising sweetness."[21]

The production opened at the Nol Coward Theatre in London's West End on 23 July 2014, receiving rave reviews from critics. It was called "A joyous celebration of theatre" in the Daily Telegraph,[67] "Joyous" in The Independent,[68] and "A love letter to theatre" in The Guardian.[69]

The question 'did Shakespeare love his wife?' has tantalised for years, since we have very little evidence of the relationship between William Shakespeare and his wife. In truth all we know for certain is that they married, had three children, and stayed married until William's death in 1616.

William Shakespeare needs no introduction. The sixteenth-century British playwright changed the landscape of theatre and the English language, with dozens of comedies, tragedies, and histories. But regardless of which Shakespeare play you are viewing or reading, many Shakespeare works feature beautiful quotes relating to love, marriage, and kinship.

Whether "music is the food of love" or if "the course of true love never did run smooth," Shakespeare's way with words continues to impress us generations later. Here's some of our top love quotes found in Shakespeare plays.

Right from the get go of A Midsummer Night's Dream, there's poetry to be found. Sometimes referred to in conversations today, it means that love can be found in the imagination; the mental state of someone can be more attractive than the eyes may give reason to. When spoken in the play, it's said with a tinge of jealousy, as Helena wants Demetrius to fall in love with a whole person and not just for someone's looks.

I think we all know this to be true, and so did William Shakespeare. In a scene between Lysander and Hermia, Lysander comments that the path to true love will always be riddled with obstacles. Their love triangle is definitely a tricky one.

The Countess leaves her son with this stellar advice before he joins the royal court of Paris. While it may not be about romantic love, its discussion of platonic love is worthy of being on this list.

Love can ignite us with passion. But love can also cause the greatest pain. When Cleopatra orders a countryman to bring snakes to her, she exclaims that leaving the world while lying still implies you have no love left to give. The world and everything around you is not worthy of a goodbye.

Where there is love, there is deceit. Imogen says this of her husband when thinking about his promises. Having gone against his word, it's clear that Imogen believes men's promises are not worth anything. Hence promises for one sex being traitoruous for another.

These star-crossed lovers are the perfect example of Shakespearean romance. Juliet says this to Romeo when they discuss how their quarrelling families are stopping them from being together. If only they could have stayed together forever.

While he's longing for Juliet, Romeo sees his teenage lover looking out the window. In this quote, he speaks of Juliet as his shining light, wishing to be the glove so that he can constantly be close to her.

We used this quote in our round up of top Shakespeare comedies, as taken out of context, it can seem nonsensical. However, Orsino says this as he's just desperate to fall in love. In fact, he wants so much love that he no longer wants to be hungry. Therefore he wants the music to keep going until he has no more love to give.

Going steady can be tiresome. This is a sentiment that Olivia shares in Twelfth Night, commenting that natural love and reciprocation is better than forcing a relationship. Reversing this, Olivia could also be looking the perfect love without having to pursue it herself.

Although this quote may not come from a Shakespeare play, this line is the start of what's often considered to be a Shakespeare love sonnet. Throughout the poem, the speaker asks if he should compare himself to the joy of a summer day. Even if a summer day doesn't last forever, the speaker longs to remember this feeling for eternity, falling in love with his surroundings.

Shakespeare in Love is, in many ways, a loveletter to theatre and the people who makeit and to the people who love and supportit. It belongs on a stage with an audienceswimming in the energy and unpredictabilityof a live performance.

I love this play because its heart is enormousand generous. It encompasses bothdivinely clever Shakespeare-insider wordplayand cheap puns. It has swashbucklingswordfights and a passionately delicateromance. It examines the gender politicsof a decidedly sexist world whose monarchis one of the most powerful women in history.It honors and holds these contradictionsin one container. It is wonderfullyShakespearean in its celebration of the turbulentcomplexity of human beings.

Happy speeching and writing love letters, everyone! If you are looking for other bookish wedding quotes, check out our suggestions here, as well as this list of bookish wedding readings. Want more Shakespeare? Get a tattoo featuring the Bard!

There is a boatman in "Shakespeare in Love" who ferries Shakespeare across the Thames while bragging, "I had Christopher Marlowe in my boat once." As Shakespeare steps ashore, the boatman tries to give him a script to read. The contemporary feel of the humor (like Shakespeare's coffee mug, inscribed "Souvenir of Stratford-Upon-Avon") makes the movie play like a contest between "Masterpiece Theatre" and Mel Brooks. Then the movie stirs in a sweet love story, juicy court intrigue, backstage politics and some lovely moments from "Romeo and Juliet" (Shakespeare's working title: "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter").

Players in drag were of course standard on the Elizabethan stage ("Stage love will never be true love," the dialogue complains, "while the law of the land has our beauties played by pipsqueak boys"). It was conventional not to notice the gender disguises, and "Shakespeare in Love" asks us to grant the same leeway, as Viola first plays a woman auditioning to play a man and later plays a man playing a woman. As the young man auditioning to play Romeo, Viola wears a mustache and trousers and yet somehow inspires stirrings in Will's breeches; later, at a dance, he sees her as a woman and falls instantly in love. 17dc91bb1f