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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


WILL:

She is always Aphrodite.

HENSLOWE:

Aphrodite Baggot who does it behind

the Dog and Trumpet?

WILL:

Henslowe, you have no soul so how can

you understand the emptiness that

seeks a soulmate?

HENSLOWE:

Well, I am a dead man and buggered to

boot. My theatre is close by the

plague these twelve weeks, my company

is playing the inn-yards

of England, while Burbage and the

Chamberlain's Men are invited to court

and receive ten pounds to play your

piece, written for my theatre, by my

writer, at my risk when you were green

and grateful -

WILL:

What piece? Richard Crookback?

HENSLOWE:

No--it's comedy they want, Will!

Comedy! Like Romeo and Ethel?

WILL:

Who wrote that?

HENSLOWE:

Nobody! You are writing it for me! I

gave you three pounds a month since.

WILL:

Half what you owed me. I am still due

for One Gentleman of Verona.

EXT. ANOTHER STREET. DAY

HENSLOWE'S hardly paused in his appeal.

HENSLOWE:

. . . Will! What is money to you and

me? I, your patron, you my wordwright!

When the plague lifts Burbage will

have a new Christopher Marlowe for the

Curtain and I have nothing for the

Rose.

WILL stops.

WILL:

Mr. Henslowe, will you lend me fifty

pounds?

HENSLOWE:

(staggered)

Fifty pounds? What for?

WILL:

Burbage offers me a partnership in the

Chamberlain's Men. For fifty pounds my

hired player days are over.

HENSLOWE:

Cut out my heart! Throw my liver to

the dogs!

WILL:

(answering for him)

No, then.

WILL turns down a side street.

EXT. MARKETPLACE. DAY.

HENSLOWE and WILL are crossing a crowded marketplace

where a Puritan preacher, MAKEPEACE, is haranguing anyone

who will listen.

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