Clever, intelligent, great period piece

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 1999)

This is a marvelous interpretation of life in Elizabethan England. Perhaps a few too many scenes of sexual activities for those of us more prudish (read older) viewers, but they have to be accepted if one is to see the movie.
I found the interlocking scenes of the creating of the play by the actors with the events of Shakespeare's trist to be wonderfully done. The costumes were super, the use of the language of the day convincing, the setting very authentic.