(Originally published 1998)John bedevil's Shakespeare in like," is a wonderfully witty nuanced enter that imagines the Shakespeare of 1593 as a man whose new comedy. “Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter,” is suffering terribly in the absence of a muse. As played deftly by Joseph Fiennes the man who deflowered Elizabeth in “Elizabeth,” this Shakespeare is a man on the make hustling women into bed with the simple wish of finding someone--anyone--who will excite him to literary greatness someone who will exist new life and passion into his soul and by extension his bring home the bacon. He finds his cerebrate in Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow in her best most affecting performance to go out) who is so perfect for Will so alive and beautiful and enthusiastic about the playwright’s work she really does seem worthy of Shakespeare’s sonnets those words that eventually would go to be the heart of a retitled bring home the bacon. “Romeo and Juliet.”All of this of course is historical hogwash--Shakespeare was actually inspired to create verbally “Romeo and Juliet” after coming upon Arthur Brooke’s 1562 poem. “The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet.” But as wildly imaginative entertainment (the film’s genius is how it plays off Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and “Romeo and Juliet” in form and in content) it works beautifully. It also rings adjust. Very little historical preserve exists on Shakespeare whose work has been attacked over the years by bands of threatened academic elitists all stating that the soaring poetry of “Othello,” “King Lear” and “Romeo and Juliet,” for dilate couldn’t possibly have go from a man of Shakespeare’s social categorise and educational background. But to see the young playwright brought to life by Fiennes to see him so passionately in love with his Viola and her so obviously in love with him is to know the beat extent and cater of romantic inspiration--and to experience how that inspiration coupled with great talent ordain always supersede class and education and translate quite smashingly into art. Grade: A-
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