shackespeare in love

• MAIN CHARACTERS:

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: He was a theatre writter. He wantedto write a play of love.  He fell in love with Lady Viola, a beatutifull dame.

LADY VIOLA: She wants to dedicate herself to acting, but it is not easy, since at that time women could not act.one day, with the help of her nurse, Viola attends an audition disguised as a man,Shakespeare is amazed by Viola's audition and decides to hire her to play Romeo. After that, he decides to change the title of the work to Romeo and Juliet.

RELATION BETWEEN THE FILM AND THE PLAY 'ROMEO & JULIET'

In the film, Shakespeare was working in the play. He changed the title of it three times. At the beginning of the film, Shakespeare wanted to write a romantic comedy, but then, when he knew the end of his love with Lady Viola, he changed the end and he wrote a tragedy.

THE THEATRE OF THE AGE

The theatre was made of wood, it had some terraces in which you could saw the stage. In the theatre, only mens could act. 

RELATION BETWEEN THE QUEEN AND THE THEATRE

In the film we saw the Queen in the theatre and she sayed that she loves the theatre and the Shakespeare's works.

THE HISTORY

In the film we can see the Queen Elizabeth I (the first) in XVI Century.

THE SOCIETY OF THE AGE

We can see in the film the inequality of the age. We can see the man who have 'The Rose' theatre who have many debts and he pay it with the theatre beneficts or the boy who lived with his own works. But we can see the richness of the Queen and the noble people like Lady Viola family.