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. 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").
What does it take to renew his energy? A sight of the beautiful Viola De Lesseps ( Gwyneth Paltrow), a rich man's daughter with the taste to prefer Shakespeare to Marlowe, and the daring to put on men's clothes and audition for a role in Will's new play. Shakespeare, meanwhile, struggles against deadlines and complains in therapy that his quill has broken (his therapist raises a Freudian eyebrow). The film's opening scenes provide a cheerful survey of the business of theater-the buildings, the budgets, the script deadlines, the casting process. Shakespeare ( Joseph Fiennes) is not as successful as the popular Marlowe ( Rupert Everett), but he's a rising star, in demand by the impecunious impresario Henslowe ( Geoffrey Rush), whose Rose Theater is in hock to a money lender, and Richard Burbage ( Martin Clunes), whose Curtain Theater has Marlowe and would like to sign Shakespeare. Theater in London is booming-when the theaters aren't closed, that is, by plague warnings or bad debts. "Shakespeare in Love" is set in late Elizabethan England (the queen, played as a young woman by Cate Blanchett in " Elizabeth," is played as an old one here by Judi Dench). The screenplay is by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, whose play " Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" approached "Hamlet" from the points of view of two minor characters.
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The movie serves as a reminder that Will Shakespeare was once a young playwright on the make, that theater in all times is as much business as show, and that "Romeo and Juliet" must have been written by a man in intimate communication with his libido. I was carried along by the wit, the energy and a surprising sweetness. Is this a movie or an anthology? I didn't care.
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