A refreshingly literate comedy

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 1999)

In this era of Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey, it's so nice to see a comedy that is actually intelligent. I mean, a gag about John Webster! I may have been the only one who laughed at that, but it's amazing this film was even made. A thousand kudos to the studio that greenlighted the film.
Though this movie is not historically accurate in hundreds of ways, it is true to the spirit of the time and place. Shakespeare was a POPULAR writer at the time, not a stuffy dead white man who is inflicted on high school students. It's very exciting to be caught up in those watching the first ever performance of Romeo and Juliet.
This movie is a marvel. I'm astonished it was made, and I'm grateful.