5/31/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare in love themes![]() Amid a hasty and rather uneven first half-hour, a curious courtship begins between theatre-loving noblewoman Viola Le Dessaps (Paltrow) and the smitten Bard. In 1590, as the world of theatre struggles to gain respect, an egocentric Will Shakespeare (Fiennes) hits the plague of writer's block, unable to realise his latest comedy Romeo And Ethel The Pirate's Daughter (you can see where we're coming from) without a new romantic muse. This is postmodernism without the ponce, period drama without the pomposity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Art imitates life, life imitates art, life takes art outside for a good kicking and art gives as good as he gets. Brown tinkers with history, art and the love-life of Britain's most celebrated playwright to delicious effect. Effortlessly fusing the slyly clever, the broadly comical and the hopelessly romantic, John Madden's follow-up to Mrs.
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