Shakespeare follows him, unaware that he is in fact a young noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps ( Gwyneth Paltrow), all the way to Viola’s home. Thomas Kent, an actor auditioning for the part of Romeo, impresses Shakespeare but flees the theatre. Henslowe, believing the play to be near completion, holds auditions. Later, in a tavern, another playwright, Christopher Marlowe (Rupert Everett, in an uncredited role) offers Shakespeare suggestions for the play’s plot. Shakespeare, however, is suffering from writer’s block and has written nothing. Henslowe persuades Fennyman that the new comedy being written for him by Will Shakespeare ( Joseph Fiennes), Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter, will bring in enough money to cover the debt.
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The movie, which satirizes theatre life and plays with what is known and what is unknown about Shakespeare’s life and times, won the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for best film as well as the Golden Globe Award for best comedy or musical.Īs the movie begins, Philip Henslowe (played by Geoffrey Rush), the owner of the Rose Theatre, is being tortured because he owes money to Hugh Fennyman (Tom Wilkinson). 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.