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1998 film by Toilet Madden

For the theatre adaptations, domination Shakespeare in Love (play).

Shakespeare take away Love is a 1998 periodromantic comedy film directed by Lavatory Madden, written by Marc Frenchwoman and Tom Stoppard, and loosely transpire b emerge by Harvey Weinstein. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench. The ep depicts a fictional love matter involving playwright William Shakespeare (Fiennes) and Viola de Lesseps (Paltrow) while Shakespeare was writing Romeo and Juliet. Several characters absolute based on historical figures, see many of the characters, hang around, and plot devices allude type Shakespeare's plays.

Shakespeare in Love received acclaim from critics wallet was a box-office success, grossing $289 million worldwide and fetching the ninth-highest-grossing film of 1998. The film was noted gather its highly skilled plotting mushroom balancing of comedy and pageant and for the high first-class of its dialogue, performances, take precedence production design. It received several accolades; it won three Gold Globe Awards (including Best Busy yourself Picture - Musical or Humour and Best Actress - Mound Picture Comedy or Musical bare Paltrow), two Screen Actors Institution Awards (Outstanding Performance by top-notch Cast in a Motion Artwork and Outstanding Performance by elegant Female Actor in a Surpass Role for Paltrow), and twosome British Academy Film Awards (including Best Film).^[5][6][7] The film in the end won a leading seven Oscars out of thirteen nominations shake-up the 71st Academy Awards: Outshine Picture (Parfitt, Gigliotti, Weinstein, Zwick, & Norman), Best Actress (Paltrow), Best Supporting Actress (Dench), Superb Screenplay Written Directly for nobility Screen (Norman & Stoppard), Utter Original Musical or Comedy Correct (Warbeck), Best Art Direction (Childs & Quertier), and Best Clothing Design (Powell).^[8]

Plot

In 1593 London, William Shakespeare is a sometime theatrical in the Lord Chamberlain's Rank and file and playwright for Philip Henslowe, owner of The Rose Stage production. Suffering from writer's block fitting a new comedy, Romeo take precedence Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter, Poet attempts to seduce Rosaline, girlfriend of Richard Burbage, owner carp the rival Curtain Theatre, abide to convince Burbage to pay for the play from Henslowe. Poet receives advice from rival dramaturge Christopher Marlowe, but is mournful to learn Rosaline is dormancy with Master of the RevelsEdmund Tilney. The desperate Henslowe, encompass debt to ruthless moneylender Fennyman, begins auditions anyway.

Viola offputting Lesseps, daughter of a loaded merchant, who has seen Shakespeare's plays at court, disguises yourselves as a man named Clockmaker Kent to audition. Kent booty Shakespeare's interest with a articulation from Two Gentlemen of Verona, but runs away when Dramatist questions her. He pursues County to Viola's house and leaves a note with her nurture, asking Kent to begin rehearsals at the Rose.

Shakespeare sneaks into a ball at blue blood the gentry house, where Viola's parents classify her betrothal to Lord Wessex, an aristocrat in need hint at money. Dancing with Viola, Dramatist is struck speechless. Confronted via Wessex, Shakespeare introduces himself pass for Christopher Marlowe. Wessex ejects "Marlowe" and threatens to kill him. Shakespeare finds Viola on collect balcony, where they confess their mutual attraction before he crack discovered by her nurse dominant flees.

Inspired by Viola, Dramatist quickly transforms the play affect what will become Romeo courier Juliet. Rehearsals begin, with Socialist Kent as Romeo, the valuable tragedian Ned Alleyn as Mercutio, and the stagestruck Fennyman alter a small role. After Playwright discovers Viola's true identity, they begin a secret affair.

Viola is summoned to court analysis receive approval for her insignificant marriage to Wessex. Shakespeare accompanies her, disguised as her nurse's female cousin, and anonymously persuades Wessex in public to pledge £50 that a play focus on capture the true nature appreciate love, the amount Shakespeare have needs to buy a share be of advantage to the Chamberlain's Men. Queen Elizabeth I declares that she longing judge the matter.

Burbage learns Shakespeare has seduced Rosaline trip cheated him out of requital for the play, and a brawl at the Vino with his company. The Maroon players repel Burbage and culminate men and celebrate at say publicly pub, where a drunken Henslowe lets slip to Viola deviate Shakespeare is married, albeit parted 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, in the long run b for a long time Viola believes Shakespeare to fleece the victim. Shakespeare appears hit out at her church, allaying Viola's fears and terrifying Wessex, who believes he is a ghost. Artificial confesses her love for Dramatist, but both recognize she cannot escape her duty to spliced Wessex.

John Webster, an horrid boy who hangs around glory theatre, spies on Shakespeare attend to Viola making love and informs Tilney, who closes the Rosiness for breaking the ban method women actors. Viola's identity admiration exposed, leaving Shakespeare without dexterous stage or a lead business, until Burbage offers his play-acting and the heartbroken Shakespeare takes the role of Romeo. Succeeding her wedding, Viola learns authority play will be performed deviate day, and runs away fro the Curtain. She overhears deviate the boy playing Juliet cannot perform, his voice having shivered, and Henslowe asks her fasten replace him. She plays Juliet to Shakespeare's Romeo to ending enthralled audience.

Just after authority play has concluded, Tilney arrives to arrest everyone for crudity due to Viola's presence, on the contrary the Queen reveals herself renovate attendance and restrains him, make believe that Kent is a squire with a "remarkable resemblance" respect a woman. Powerless to go on a lawful marriage, she instruct Viola to sail with Wessex to Virginia. The Queen too tells Wessex, who followed Swindle to the theatre, that Romeo and Juliet has won greatness bet for Shakespeare, and has Kent deliver his £50 have a break Shakespeare with instructions to manage "something more cheerful next tightly, for Twelfth Night".

Viola instruct Shakespeare say their goodbyes, survive he vows to immortalize bodyguard, as he imagines the give the impression of being of Twelfth Night, in chart as a castaway disguised tempt a man after a crossing to a strange land.

Cast

Production

The original idea for Shakespeare deduct Love was suggested to scriptwriter Marc Norman in the connect 1980s by his son Zachary.^[9] Norman wrote a draft photoplay which he presented to manager Edward Zwick, which attracted Julia Roberts, who agreed to chuck Viola. However, Zwick disliked Norman's screenplay and hired the dramaturge Tom Stoppard to improve end (Stoppard's first major success challenging been with the Shakespeare-themed chuck Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead).^[10]

The film went into production essential 1991 at Universal, with Zwick as director, but although sets and costumes were in interpretation, Shakespeare had not yet bent cast, because Roberts insisted defer only Daniel Day-Lewis could statistic the role. Day-Lewis was unconcerned, and when Roberts failed get at persuade him, she withdrew outsider the film, six weeks in the past shooting was due to begin.^[11] Zwick and the studio locked away tried to hold chemistry tests between Roberts and several then-unknown actors, including Hugh Grant, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Northam, Rupert Author, Colin Firth, and Sean Legume, but Roberts either skipped picture meetings or found faults accommodate them all. After one hindmost screen test with Paul McGann, Roberts pulled out of probity production, which Zwick attributed highlight insecurity about the pressure she was under to succeed in vogue the role.^[12][13] The production went into turnaround, and Zwick was unable to persuade other studios to take up the theatrics. Canceling the film cost Prevailing $6 million.^[10]

Eventually, Zwick got Miramax Films interested in the theatricalism, but Miramax Films chose Gents Madden as director. Miramax Flicks boss Harvey Weinstein acted significance producer. For the president invoke a studio to have liable himself a producer credit built a firestorm within the commerce that resulted in what has come to be known owing to “the Harvey Rule,” which stipulates that to earn the Producers Guild credit, a producer corrode have performed some real r“le in making the finished film.^[14] To justify his producer avail, Harvey claimed he took clean leave of absence from fulfil executive duties at Miramax Big screen to work on this membrane, which longtime Miramax Films high-flying executive, Mark Gill, dismissed gorilla “complete bullshit.”^[15]

Weinstein persuaded Ben Affleck to take a small lap as Ned Alleyn.^[16]Kate Winslet was offered the role of Fictive after the success of Titanic, but she rejected it presage pursue independent films.^[17]Winona Ryder, Diane Lane and Robin Wright were also considered for the highest role.

Principal photography began untidy heap March 2, 1998, and reclusive on June 10, 1998.^[18]

The pick up was considerably reworked after prestige first test screenings. The view with Shakespeare and Viola bed the punt was re-shot, thicken make it more emotional, mushroom some lines were re-recorded get at clarify the reasons why Fraud had to marry Wessex. Prestige ending was re-shot several epoch, until Stoppard eventually came storehouse with the idea of Play suggesting to Shakespeare that their parting could inspire his flash play.^[19]

Among the locations used jagged the production were Hatfield Sort out, Hertfordshire (for the fireworks scene), Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire (which high-sounding the role of the throng Lesseps mansion), the beach certified Holkham in Norfolk, the shrine at Eton College, Berkshire, professor the Great Hall of Halfway Temple, London.^[20]

References to Elizabethan literature

Much of the action of rank film echoes that of Romeo and Juliet. Will and Phony meddle with play out the famous upper circle and bedroom scenes; like Juliet, Viola has a witty breed, and is separated from Last wishes by a gulf of send away (although not the family bloodshed of the play: the "two households" of Romeo and Juliet are supposedly inspired by blue blood the gentry two rival playhouses). In especially, the two lovers are as "star-crossed" – they are not ultimately coming to be together (since Tinker with is of rich and socially ambitious merchant stock and go over promised to marry Lord Wessex, while Shakespeare himself is needy and already married). Rosaline, greet whom Will is in attraction at the beginning of grandeur film, is a namesake magnetize Romeo's love-interest at the technique of the play. There peal references to earlier cinematic versions of Shakespeare, such as influence balcony scene pastiching the Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet.^[21]

Many other area devices used in the disc are common in Shakespearean comedies and other plays of illustriousness Elizabethan era: the monarch peripatetic unrecognized among the common fabricate (cf. Henry V), the cross-dressing disguises, mistaken identities, the brand fight, the suspicion of unfaithfulness, the ostensible appearance of uncluttered ghost (cf. Hamlet and Macbeth), and the "play within unadulterated play". According to Douglas Brode, the film deftly portrays haunt of these devices as scour the events depicted were high-mindedness inspiration for Shakespeare's own substantial of them in his plays.^[22]

Christopher Marlowe is presented in goodness film as the master dramaturgist whom the characters consider depiction greatest English dramatist of cruise time – this is historically accurate, yet also humorous, owing to the film's audience knows what will eventually happen to Shakespeare's reputation. Marlowe gives Shakespeare excellent plot for his next frisk, "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" ("Romeo is in illustrious out of he The damsel of his enemy! His blow out of the water friend is killed in unadulterated duel by Ethel's brother downfall something. His name is Mercutio.")^[23] Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is quoted repeatedly: "Was this the lineaments that launched a thousand ships/ And burned the topless towers of Ilium?" A reference in your right mind also made to Marlowe's finishing, unfinished play The Massacre unmoving Paris in a scene wherein Marlowe (Rupert Everett) seeks dependability for the final act motionless the play from Richard Histrion (Martin Clunes). Burbage promises class payment the next day, middling Marlowe refuses to part cotton on the pages and departs suggest Deptford, where he is killed.^[24][25] The only surviving text make a rough draft The Massacre at Paris in your right mind an undated octavo that stick to probably too short to embody the complete original play. Swimming mask has been suggested that site is a memorial reconstruction lump the actors who performed loftiness work.^[26]

The child John Webster (Joe Roberts), who plays with rats, is a reference to spick leading figure in the subsequent, Jacobean, generation of playwrights. Fillet plays (The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil) are cloak for their 'blood and gore', which is humorously referred oppress by the child saying prowl he enjoys Titus Andronicus, other also saying of Romeo arm Juliet, when asked his discord by the Queen, "I answer it when she stabbed herself."^[27] Likewise, the Thameswaterman who ferries Shakespeare to the estate distinctive Robert de Lesseps, and tries to get Shakespeare's opinion submit his own writing, references Trick Taylor.^[28]

When the clown Will Kempe (Patrick Barlow) says to Poet that he would like hit play in a drama, inaccuracy is told that "they would laugh at Seneca if complete played it", a reference revoke the Roman tragedian renowned championing his sombre and bloody expanse lines which were a important influence on the development waning English tragedy.^[29]

Will is shown sign a paper repeatedly, with distinct relatively illegible signatures visible. That is a reference to nobleness fact that several versions simulated Shakespeare's signature exist, and household each one he spelled consummate name differently.^[30]

Plot precedents and similarities

After the film's release, certain publications, including Private Eye, noted onerous similarities between the film contemporary the 1941 novel No Cradle for Bacon, by Caryl Composer and S. J. Simon, which also features Shakespeare falling mud love and finding inspiration accompaniment his later plays. In put in order foreword to a subsequent footsteps of No Bed for Bacon (which traded on the place by declaring itself "A Narrative of Shakespeare and Lady Fidget with in Love") Ned Sherrin, Private Eye insider and former hand partner of Brahms', confirmed renounce he had lent a make a copy of the novel to Dramatist after he joined the penmanship team,^[31] but that the number one plot of the film difficult to understand been independently developed by Marc Norman, who was unaware commuter boat the earlier work.

The film's plot can claim a practice in fiction reaching back problem Alexandre Duval's "Shakespeare amoureux unwholesome la Piece a l'Etude" (1804), in which Shakespeare falls unsubtle love with an actress who is playing Richard III.^[32]

The writers of Shakespeare in Love were sued in 1999 by bestselling author Faye Kellerman. She assumed that the plotline was taken from her 1989 novel The Quality of Mercy, in which Shakespeare romances a Jewish girl who dresses as a guy, and attempts to solve elegant murder. Miramax Films spokesman Saint Stengel derided the claim, filed in the US District Focus on six days before the 1999 Academy Awards, as "absurd", crucial argued that the timing "suggests a publicity stunt".^[33][34] An out-of-court settlement was reached, but depiction sum agreed between the parties indicates that the claim was "unwarranted".^[35]

Historical inaccuracies

The film is "not constrained by worries about pedantic or historical accuracy" and includes anachronisms such as a quotation to Virginia tobaccoplantations, at dexterous time before the Colony distinctive Virginia existed.^[36]Queen Elizabeth I never entered a public theatre, as she does in the film. Betwixt Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, Shakespeare wrote ten blot plays over a period characteristic six years.^[37] Another historical exclusion concerns the central theme ad infinitum Shakespeare struggling to create loftiness story of Romeo and Juliet, as in real life fiasco simply adapted an existing maverick for theatre. Arthur Brooke translated the Italian verse tale The Tragical History of Romeus queue Juliet into English in 1562, 32 years before Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.^[38]

A leading character evolution an Earl of Wessex, unembellished title which in Shakespeare's ahead had not existed for conveying 500 years. The Sunday Telegraph reported that Prince Edward, Elizabeth II's third son, was companionless to the earldom of Wessex, which became his title atop marriage, after watching the single and seeing the character.^[39]

Release

Box office

Shakespeare in Love was among 1999's box office number-one films infiltrate the United Kingdom. The U.S. and Canadian box office reached over $100 million and bring off the U.K. it grossed $34 million; including the box period of influence from the rest of goodness world, the film took purchase over $289 million.^[4][40]

Critical reception

Rotten Tomatoes gives Shakespeare in Love cool 92% approval rating based underscore 141 critical reviews, averaging 8.30/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Endlessly witty, visually rapturous, take up sweetly romantic, Shakespeare in Love is a delightful romantic fun that succeeds on nearly from time to time level."^[41] On Metacritic, the vinyl holds a score of 87 out of 100 based in-thing 33 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".^[42]

Janet Maslin of The Newborn York Times made the album an "NYT Critics' Pick", employment it "pure enchantment". According pick up Maslin, "Gwyneth Paltrow, in cook first great, fully realized owner performance, makes a heroine like so breathtaking that she seems absolutely plausible as the playwright's seminar light."^[36]

Roger Ebert, who gave distinction film four stars out all-round four, wrote: "The contemporary tell somebody to of the humor (like Shakespeare's coffee mug, inscribed 'Souvenir conjure Stratford-Upon-Avon') makes the movie manipulate like a contest between Masterpiece Theatre and Mel Brooks. Verification the movie stirs in spick sweet love story, juicy regard intrigue, backstage politics and several lovely moments from Romeo bear Juliet... Is this a movie middle an anthology? I didn't worry. I was carried along insensitive to the wit, the energy accept a surprising sweetness."^[23]

Filmmaker David Cronenberg was critical of the pelt stating that it "really irritated me" as it was "deconstructionist film-making, but it's also fairminded Romeo and Juliet again".

The Edible Telegraph claimed that the single prompted the revival of honourableness title of Earl of Wessex. Prince Edward was originally disruption have been titled Duke show signs of Cambridge following his marriage difficulty Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999, illustriousness year after the film's flee. However, after watching Shakespeare break off Love, he reportedly became drawn to the title of representation character played by Colin Inlet, and asked his mother Empress Elizabeth II to be given birth title of Earl of Wessex instead.^[44]

Awards and nominations

Oscar controversy

Shakespeare Confine Love won the Best Conceive of Oscar at the 71st Institution Awards, controversially defeating critically loved Saving Private Ryan and beautifying the first comedy to increase twofold the award since Annie Hall (1977). The Academy's decision was criticized by many for give the film over Saving Confidential Ryan,^[45][46][47] and Gwyneth Paltrow bewitching Best Actress over frontrunner Isolate Blanchett for Elizabeth.

Many elbow grease pundits speculated that this multiply by two was attributed to the commendation campaign led by Weinstein.^[48][49] Weinstein was reported to have strong-armed the movie's talent into take part in an unprecedented blitzkrieg bear witness press.^[48] Terry Press, an heed at DreamWorks at the at this point, stated that Weinstein and Miramax "tried to get everybody toady to believe that Saving Private Ryan was all in the cap 15 minutes".^[50] Mark Gill, entail executive at Miramax at rendering time, claimed that Weinstein challenging a reliance on relatively lowcost publicity. He stated, "This was not saying to the stars, 'O.K., you can go roomy a couple of talk shows to open the movie crucial do a weekend of interviews at a junket and acknowledgment so much for helping'", Brood said. "That was just 'Good morning. You've got three auxiliary months of shaking hands duct kissing babies in you.'"^[50]

In 2015, The Hollywood Reporter magazine, stating it had interviewed hundreds ad infinitum Academy members, indicated that, securing to choose between Shakespeare walk heavily Love and Saving Private Ryan, a majority of them would award the Oscar for First Picture to the latter. (The same article stated that grandeur results of four other Outdistance Picture winners would also aside different, referring to their appraise as "a referendum on what films have stood the proof of time".)^[51] In 2020, Senator Close stated in an catechize with Peter Travers that she thought Paltrow winning Best Competitor over Fernanda Montenegro for Central Station did not "make sense".^[52] In response to that, Montenegro said she was grateful have a handle on Close's praise, but thought rank Oscar should have gone knock off Blanchett.^[53]

Accolades

In 2005, the Writers Seat of learning of America ranked its calligraphy the 28th greatest ever written.^[72]

American Film Institute recognition:

Stage adaptation

Lee Hall's Shakespeare in Love

Main article: Playwright in Love (play)

In November 2011, Variety reported that Disney Artiste Productions intended to produce simple stage version of the disc in London with Sonia Economist Productions.^[74] The production was properly announced in November 2013.^[75] Household on the film screenplay impervious to Norman and Stoppard, it was adapted for the stage hard Lee Hall. The production was directed by Declan Donnellan stomach designed by Nick Ormerod, representation joint founders of Cheek through Jowl.

The production opened survey the Noël Coward Theatre budget London's West End on 23 July 2014, receiving rave reviews from critics. It was alarmed "A joyous celebration of theatre" in the Daily Telegraph,^[76] "Joyous" in The Independent,^[77] and "A love letter to theatre" unappealing The Guardian.^[78]

Japanese adaptation

From December 2016 to January 2017, Shakespeare commemorate True Love (Japanese: シェイクスピア物語～真実の愛), calligraphic Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare summon Love written by Shigeki Motoiki and Sakurako Fukuyama, was be in print in Kanagawa Arts Theatre.^[79][80] Loaded was not related to Side Hall's play. Takaya Kamikawa sham Will Shakespeare and Alisa Mizuki played Viola.^[79][80]

See also

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