Cultural Opportunities

Shakespeare in love, its, 1593 in London, Philip Henslowe is the manger of the theater finds himself balance due to a loan shark named Hugh Fennyman. He offers Philip a partnership in a new production that William Shakespeare wrote called Romeo and Ethel and the Pirates Daughter. William finds out that his love was cheating on him. He throws his play right into the fire, and then he renamed his play Romeo and Juliet. He could not right the play because he had no inspiration but he was still auditing for Romeo. A young boy came to Williams the theater to try out for a part in the play named Thomas Kent but really he was a young woman that loved t act and her named was Viola de Lesseps. William tracked down the young and found out his identity and falls in love with Viola. William found his inspiration and it was Viola and he then began writing the rest of the play. William and Viola had to hide their love because Viola is having an arranged marriage. As they hide there love, and keep sneaking around William makes love to Viola and that’s when he got the balcony scene for Romeo and Juliet. If William play is a success then he gets money from the Queen. Viola gets married that day the play was going to be shown. She gets married and then she sneaks out of the carriage and goes to the theater to see the play. When she got there, they were missing a Juliet so she volunteered t play her. William thought she was gone forever and that he did not get to see her again. William was playing Romeo that day and when Viola came out on stage to be Juliet William eyes locked with hers the whole time. I thought the movie was great because it was about how Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. I loved Romeo and Juliet when I first saw it on the TV. At first when I picked out this movie I thought I was not going to like it but I was wrong. I liked how one girl could make Shakespeare write a whole play. He wrote it about how he fell in love with Viola. He got some many ideas juts by making love to her. I think this movie is better than Romeo and Juliet because you can feel the love Shakespeare was having with Viola.