Movie Summary - Shakespeare in Love essays

Movie Summary - Shakespeare in Love essays Shakespeare In Love is a romantic comedy that traces the year in the life of William Shakespeare. The film's screenplay was co-written by Mac Norman and Tom Stoppard who created the film by taking actual facts of Shakespeare's life and experiences and entwining them with pieces, ideas, and words from Shakespeare's plays, specifically Romeo and Juliet. Regarding the formulation of Shakespeare in Love scriptwriter Tom Stoppard stated: "As with all fiction involving historical characters the story is taking place in a parallel world. One is making a fairy tale out of the life of a genius who lived. It's rather helpful to the people who are telling the story that so little is known about William Shakespeare because it means that you can use quite a lot without contradicting other things that might have been known about him. So this fiction which exists in the parallel world of the filmmaker's imagination coalesces with the historical Shakespeare without contradicting him." As most of us have learned, we know very few facts about Shakespeare as a person and thus building an image of his life is rather difficult in the making. As a result, Shakespeare In Love is a story brought to life, not as a true story of Shakespeare's life, but as a fun tale that plays with facts from his life and links them together creating a tale about love and the making of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. The relationship of Viola de Lesseps and Will Shakespeare parallels the writing of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. There is significant parallel in the world of the lovers in both Shakespeare In Love and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare uses memories of real events in his relationship with Viola when writing scenes for his play Romeo and Juliet. In one scene during Shakespeare In Love, dawn is breaking, and the nurse has fallen asleep in her rocking chair outside Viola's bedroom. A rooster then crows in the distance and Viola, and Will are shown in bed t...