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Synopsis: "Shakespeare in Love" is a romantic comedy for the 1990s set in the 1590s. It imaginatively unfolds the witty, sexy and timeless tale behind the creation of the greatest love story ever told. A young Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is out of cash and ideas, he meets his ideal woman and she inspires him to write one of his most famous plays.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Year:
1999
22 min
1,120 Views


MAKEPEACE:

and the Lord shall smite them! Yea,

harken to me. The theatres are

handmaidens of the devil! Under the

name of the Curtain, the players

breed lewdness in your wives,

rebellion in your servants, idleness

in your apprentices and wickedness in

your children! And the Rose smells

thusly rank by any name! I say a

plague on both their houses!

As he passes WILL gratefully makes a mental note.

EXT. DR. MOTH'S HOUSE. DAY.

WILL turns into a narrow street and walks toward a

doorway.

HENSLOWE:

Where are you going?

WILL:

To my weekly confession.

As HENSLOWE arrives the door closes in his face. A sign

identifies the place as the premises of Dr. MOTH,

apothecary, alchemist, astrologer, seer, interpreter of

dreams, and priest of psyche. HENSLOWE looks puzzled.

INT. DR. MOTH'S HOUSE. DAY

A stuffed alligator hangs from the ceiling, pills,

potions, amulets and charms, star charts and mystic

paraphernalia festoon the place. Testimonials and framed

degrees hang on the walls.

WILL lying on a couch, on his back. His eyes are closed

DR. MOTH sits by the couch, listening to WILL and

occasionally making a note on a pad he holds on his knee.

What we have here is nothing less than the false dawn of

analysis. The session is being timed by an hourglass.

WILL:

Words, words, words…once, I had the

gift…I could make love out of words as

a potter makes cups out of clay love

that overthrows empires, love that

binds two hearts together come

hellfire and brimstones…for sixpence a

line, I could cause a riot in a

nunnery…but now

DR. MOTH

And yet you tell me you lie with

women?

WILL seems unwiling to respond. DR. MOTH refers to his

notes.

DR. MOTH (CONT'D)

Black Sue, Fat Phoebe, Rosaline,

Burbage's seamstress; Aphrodite, who

does it behind the Dog and

WILL:

(interrupting)

Aye, now and again, but what of it? I

have lost my gift.

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