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Jun 17, 2024 · Shakespeare in Love, American-British film, released in 1998, that was a lighthearted and clever imagining of how William Shakespeare ’s play Romeo and Juliet came to be written and produced.
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English. Budget. $25 million [4] Box office. $289.3 million [4] Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 period romantic comedy film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, and produced by Harvey Weinstein. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench.
Synopsis. William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is a poor playwright for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of The Rose Theatre, in 1593 London. After learning that his love was cheating on him with his patron, Shakespeare burns his new comedy, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter, rewriting it as the tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
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Shakespeare in Love: Directed by John Madden. With Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Steven O'Donnell, Tim McMullan. The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
- John Madden
- 2 min
Lord Wessex has decided to marry Viola in two weeks and take her to the Colony of Virginia. Viola-as-Thomas delivers a letter to Will from Viola-as-Viola forbidding him from pursuing their relationship further. If you know anything about Shakespeare, it's that he loves him some forbidden love.
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"Shakespeare in Love" is a romantic comedy for the 1990s set in the 1590s. It imaginatively unfolds the witty, sexy and timeless tale behind the creation of the greatest love...
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