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Shakespeare in Love

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.

Director

John Madden

Year

Genre

comedy, drama, history

Box Office

$100,317,794

Production

Miramax,Universal Pictures,Bedford Falls Productions

Awards

Won 7 Oscars. 64 wins & 87 nominations total

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Philip Henslowe

Hugh Fennyman

Lambert

Steven O'Donnell

Frees

Will Shakespeare

Makepeace - the Preacher

Dr. Moth

Will Kempe

Richard Burbage

Rosaline

Tilney - Master of the Revels

Queen Elizabeth

Lady in Waiting (as Bridget McConnel)

Bridget McConnell

Lady in Waiting

Henry Condell

Nicholas Boulton

Viola De Lesseps

Gwyneth Paltrow

Nurse

Imelda Staunton

Lord Wessex

Crier

Desmond McNamara

Nol

Ralph Bashford

Peter - the Stage Manager

Actor in Tavern

Barman

First Auditionee

John Webster

Second Auditionee

Third Auditionee

Wabash

John Hemmings

James Hemmings

First Boatman

Lady De Lesseps

Scullery Maid

Master Plum

Servant

Sir Robert De Lesseps

Nicholas Le Prevost

Ned Alleyn

Edward Pope

Timothy Kightley

Augustine Philips

George Bryan

James Armitage

Sam Gosse

Daniel Brocklebank

Second Boatman

Chambermaid

Rebecca Charles

Lord in Waiting

First Whore

Second Whore

Third Whore

Patricia Potter

Makepeace's Neighbor

Paris / Lady Montague (as Martin Neeley)

(as The Choir of St. George's School Windsor)

The Choir of St. George's School in Windsor

Nobleman

Indian

Carlisle Antonio

Theatregoer

Queen Elizabeth I Party Guest

Matthew Christian

Theatregoer

Kelley Costigan

Christopher Marlowe

Lady Capulet in play

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I have a wonderful new play Put them back inIt s a comedy Cut off his noseIt s a new comedy by William ShakespeareAnd his ears And a shareWe will be partners Mr FennymanPartnersIt s a crowd ticklerMistaken identities Shipwreck Pirate kingA bit with a dog - Shakespeare in Love

I have a wonderful new play Put them back inIt s a comedy...

Say two performances for safety How much is that Mr Frees20 pounds to the penny Mr Fennyman CorrectBut I have to pay the actors and the author Share of the profitsThere s never any Of course notMr Fennyman I think you might have hit upon something - Shakespeare in Love

Say two performances for safety How much is that Mr Frees20...

So, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter". - Shakespeare in Love

So, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter".

Will WillWhere is my playTell me you have it nearly done Tell me you have it startedDoubt that the stars are fire doubt that the sun doth moveNo no we haven t the time Talk prose - Shakespeare in Love

Will WillWhere is my playTell me you have it nearly done...

Where is my playIt is all locked safe in here God be praisedLockedAs soon as I find my muse Who is she this timeShe is always AphroditeAphrodite Baggot who does it behind the Dog and Trumpet - Shakespeare in Love

Where is my playIt is all locked safe in here God be...

Henslowe you have no soulso how can you understand the emptiness that seeks a soul mate - Shakespeare in Love

Henslowe you have no soulso how can you understand the...

I am a dead man and buggered to boot - Shakespeare in Love

I am a dead man and buggered to boot

I'm still due for One Gentleman of Verona - Shakespeare in Love

I'm still due for One Gentleman of Verona

Will you lend me 50 pounds 50 pounds What forBurbage offers me a partnership in the Chamberlain s MenFor 50 pounds my days as a hired player are overOh cut out my heart Throw my liver to the dogsNo then - Shakespeare in Love

Will you lend me 50 pounds 50 pounds What forBurbage offers...

Theaters are handmaidens of the devilThe players breed lewdness in your wives and wickedness in your childrenAnd the Rose smells thusly rank by any nameI say a plague on both their houses - Shakespeare in Love

Theaters are handmaidens of the devilThe players breed...

Words, words, words. - Shakespeare in Love

Words, words, words.

It s as if my quill is brokenas if the organ of my imagination has dried upas if the proud tower of my genius has collapsedInterestingNothing comes Most interestingIt s like trying to pick a lock with a wet herringTell me are you lately humbled in the act - Shakespeare in Love

It s as if my quill is brokenas if the organ of my...

Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus. - Shakespeare in Love

Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus.

When will you write me a sonnet WillI ve lost my gift You left it in my bedCome to look for it again - Shakespeare in Love

When will you write me a sonnet WillI ve lost my gift You...

Are you to be my muse, Rosaline? - Shakespeare in Love

Are you to be my muse, Rosaline?

You see The consumptives plot against meWill Shakespeare has a playLet s go and cough through it - Shakespeare in Love

You see The consumptives plot against meWill Shakespeare has...

You see? - Shakespeare in Love

Did you like Proteus or Valentine bestProteus for speaking Valentine for looksOh I liked the dog for laughs - Shakespeare in Love

Did you like Proteus or Valentine bestProteus for speaking...

Stage love will never be true love while the law of the landhas our heroines being played by pipsqueak boys in petticoats - Shakespeare in Love

Stage love will never be true love while the law of the...

Oh when can we see another When the queen commands itNo but at the playhouse NurseBe still Playhouses are not for wellborn ladiesOh I m not so wellbornWell monied is the same as wellbornand well married is more so - Shakespeare in Love

Oh when can we see another When the queen commands itNo but...

Lord Wessex was looking at you tonightAll the men at court are without poetryIf they see me they see my father s fortuneI will have poetry in my lifeand adventureAnd love Love above allLike Valentine and SilviaNo not the artful postures of lovebut love - Shakespeare in Love

Lord Wessex was looking at you tonightAll the men at court...

I would stay asleep my whole lifeif I could dream myself into a company of players - Shakespeare in Love

I would stay asleep my whole lifeif I could dream myself...

Mr Fennyman allow me to explain about the theater businessThe natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disasterSo what do we do NothingStrangely enough it all turns out wellHow I don t know It s a mystery - Shakespeare in Love

Mr Fennyman allow me to explain about the theater...

-Where’s the play? - Shakespeare in Love

-Where’s the play?

Will! Will, I have wonderful news. So have I. Romeo and Rosaline, scene one. God, I’m good! Rosaline - Shakespeare in Love

Will! Will, I have wonderful news. So have I. Romeo and...

The special today is a pig’s foot marinated in juniper berry vinegar, served on a buckwheat pancake... - Shakespeare in Love

The special today is a pig’s foot marinated in juniper berry...

I need actorsThose of you who are unknown will have a chance to be knownWhat about the money Mr Henslowe It won t cost you a penny Ha ha ha - Shakespeare in Love

I need actorsThose of you who are unknown will have a chance...

Good title YoursRomeo and Ethel the Pirate s DaughterYes I know I know What is the storyWell there s this pirateIn truth I have not written a word - Shakespeare in Love

Good title YoursRomeo and Ethel the Pirate s DaughterYes I...

RomeoRomeo is Italianalways in and out of loveYes that s good Until he meetsEthel Do you thinkThe daughter of his enemy The daughter of his enemyHis best friend is killed in a duelby Ethel s brother or something His name is MercutioMercutio Good name - Shakespeare in Love

RomeoRomeo is Italianalways in and out of loveYes that s...

His best friend is killed in a duelby Ethel s brother or something His name is MercutioMercutio Good name - Shakespeare in Love

His best friend is killed in a duelby Ethel s brother or...

I thought your play was for BurbageThis is a different one A different one you haven t written - Shakespeare in Love

I thought your play was for BurbageThis is a different one A...

I would like to give you something from Faustus - Shakespeare in Love

I would like to give you something from Faustus

W- W- Was this the f... - Shakespeare in Love

W- W- Was this the f...

May I begin sirYour name Thomas KentI would like to do a speech by a writerwho commands the heart of every playerWhat light is lightif Silvia be not seenWhat joy is joy if Silvia be not byUnless it be to think that she is by and feed upon the shadow of - Shakespeare in Love

May I begin sirYour name Thomas KentI would like to do a...

-Will, w-where are the pages? - Shakespeare in Love

-Will, w-where are the pages?

B- B- B- Break a leg! - Shakespeare in Love

B- B- B- Break a leg!

Everybody ready? - Shakespeare in Love

Everybody ready?

I know your face. - Shakespeare in Love

I know your face.

-Do you know that house? - Shakespeare in Love

-Do you know that house?

Where is she? - Shakespeare in Love

I seek Master Thomas Kent. - Shakespeare in Love

I seek Master Thomas Kent.

As I love you and you love meyou will bind my breast and buy me a boy s wig - Shakespeare in Love

As I love you and you love meyou will bind my breast and buy...

- Master Plum. - Shakespeare in Love

-I seek Master Thomas Kent. - Shakespeare in Love

-I seek Master Thomas Kent.

Is she fertile Oh she will breedIf she do not send her back Is she obedient - Shakespeare in Love

Is she fertile Oh she will breedIf she do not send her back...

As any mule in Christendom But if you are the man to ride herthere are rubies in the saddlebagI like her - Shakespeare in Love

As any mule in Christendom But if you are the man to ride...

By all the stars in heaven. - Shakespeare in Love

By all the stars in heaven.

-My lady Viola. - Shakespeare in Love

-My lady Viola.

I have spoken with your fatherSo my lord I speak with him every day - Shakespeare in Love

I have spoken with your fatherSo my lord I speak with him...

Good sirI heard you were a poetA poet of no words - Shakespeare in Love

Good sirI heard you were a poetA poet of no words

Poet? I was a poet till now, but I’ve seen beauty that puts... my poems at one with the talking ravens in the Tower. -How do I offend, my lord? -By coveting my property. I cannot shed blood in her house, but I will cut your throat... anon. - Shakespeare in Love

Poet? I was a poet till now, but I’ve seen beauty that...

Romeo RomeoA Young Man of VeronaA comedy by William ShakespeareMy lady Who is there - Shakespeare in Love

Romeo RomeoA Young Man of VeronaA comedy by William...

Master Shakespeare The same alasBut why alas A lowly playerAlas indeed for I thought you the highest poet of my esteemand a writer of plays that capture my heartI am him too Madam - Shakespeare in Love

Master Shakespeare The same alasBut why alas A lowly...

Do you think it s funnyI was a pirate king now I m a nurse That s funny - Shakespeare in Love

Do you think it s funnyI was a pirate king now I m a nurse...

Who s that Nobody He s the author - Shakespeare in Love

Who s that Nobody He s the author

Now listen to me you dregsActors are 10 a pennyand I Hugh Fennyman hold your nuts in my hand - Shakespeare in Love

Now listen to me you dregsActors are 10 a pennyand I Hugh...

Uh one moment sir Who are youI m um I m the moneyThen you may remain so long as you remain silent - Shakespeare in Love

Uh one moment sir Who are youI m um I m the moneyThen you...

Pay attention You will see how genius creates a legend - Shakespeare in Love

Pay attention You will see how genius creates a legend

Better fortune, boy. - Shakespeare in Love

Better fortune, boy.

" For Lady Viola De Lesseps, by the hand of Thomas Kent. - Shakespeare in Love

" For Lady Viola De Lesseps, by the hand of Thomas...

Do you intend to marry my lordYour father should keep you better informed He has bought me for youHe returns from his estates to see us married two weeks from SaturdayYou are allowed to show your pleasure - Shakespeare in Love

Do you intend to marry my lordYour father should keep you...

Will you defy your father and your queen? - Shakespeare in Love

Will you defy your father and your queen?

"Master Will, poet dearest to my heart... - Shakespeare in Love

"Master Will, poet dearest to my heart...

Gentlemen upstage, Ladies downstage. - Shakespeare in Love

Gentlemen upstage, Ladies downstage.

Gentlemen upstage Ladies downstageAre you a lady Mr Kent - Shakespeare in Love

Gentlemen upstage Ladies downstageAre you a lady Mr Kent

He dies - Shakespeare in Love

-Ohh! -Will! - Shakespeare in Love

Did you give her my letter? - Shakespeare in Love

Did you give her my letter?

Unmended and unmade - Shakespeare in Love

Unmended and unmade

Tell me how you love her WillLike a sickness and its cure togetherOh yesLike rain and sunLike cold and heat - Shakespeare in Love

Tell me how you love her WillLike a sickness and its cure...

Tell me is is she beautifulThomas if I could write with the beauty of her eyesI was born to look in them and know myselfA A And her lips Her lipsThe early morning rose would wither on the branch if it could feel envyAnd her voice like lark s songDeeper - Shakespeare in Love

Tell me is is she beautifulThomas if I could write with the...

Love knows nothing of rank or riverbankIt will spark between a queen and the poor vagabond who plays the kingan their love should be minded by eachfor love denied blights the soul we owe to God - Shakespeare in Love

Love knows nothing of rank or riverbankIt will spark between...

For love denied blights the soul we owe to God - Shakespeare in Love

For love denied blights the soul we owe to God

But what of Lord WessexFor one kiss I would defy a thousand Wessexes - Shakespeare in Love

But what of Lord WessexFor one kiss I would defy a thousand...

Oh, Will. - Shakespeare in Love

Thank you my ladyLadyViola De Lesseps Known her since she was this highWouldn t deceive a childStrangely enough I m a bit of a writer me selfIt wouldn t take you long to read itI expect you d know all the booksellers - Shakespeare in Love

Thank you my ladyLadyViola De Lesseps Known her since she...

Can you love a fool? - Shakespeare in Love

Can you love a fool?

Wait! You’re still a maid... and perhaps as mistook in me as I was mistook in Thomas Kent. Are you t - Shakespeare in Love

Wait! You’re still a maid... and perhaps as mistook in me as...

I do not know how to undress a man. - Shakespeare in Love

I do not know how to undress a man.

I would not have thought it. - Shakespeare in Love

I would not have thought it.

Will. You would not leave me. I must. Look how pale the window. Moonlight. Mmm, no. The morning roos - Shakespeare in Love

Will. You would not leave me. I must. Look how pale the...

It s broad day The rooster tells us so It was the owlBelieve me love it was the owl - Shakespeare in Love

It s broad day The rooster tells us so It was the owlBelieve...

My lady? - Shakespeare in Love

Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged. - Shakespeare in Love

Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged.

-How is it? - Shakespeare in Love

You are a gentleman And you are a Warwickshire shit house - Shakespeare in Love

You are a gentleman And you are a Warwickshire shit house

Sunday. - Shakespeare in Love

I found something in my sleep. - Shakespeare in Love

I found something in my sleep.

It is not a comedy I m writing now - Shakespeare in Love

It is not a comedy I m writing now

A broad river divides my loversFamily duty fateAs unchangeable as nature - Shakespeare in Love

A broad river divides my loversFamily duty fateAs...

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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.

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Director: John Madden

Writer: Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard

Production: Miramax,Universal Pictures,Bedford Falls Productions

Genre: comedy, drama, history

Year: 1998

MetaScore: 87/100

ImdbRating: 7.1

BoxOffice: $100,317,794

Released: 08 Jan 1999

Awards: Won 7 Oscars. 64 wins & 87 nominations total

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