Hollywood Distortion

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2003)

The movie was well crafted, but what a whitewash of history! OK, so they wanted to go "mainstream" and didn't want to show Shakespeare's bisexuality. As any student knows, only SOME of Shakespeare's private LOVE SONNETS were written to the "DARK LADY." MOST of them, and the more famous ones at that, were written to a "FAIR YOUTH."
But to have Shakespeare amorously recite the line, "SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY?" to his girlfriend when it was undisputably written to a man, really takes the cake. Only in Hollywood.