Great costumes but terrible acting

Rating: 4/10 (13 May 2001)

I do not understand why this one won so many awards.... I did not understand it. This movie is about the playwriter William Shakespear played by some no name actor that shows very little experience as well as well as talent and furthermore looks nothing like William Shakespear but looking like him is not the point, where did they get this guy? Anyway, he tries to find his one true love as he writes boring plays and recieves little credit for his work. He then finds someone who auditions to play the part of a male in one of his plays and hard as this lady tries to be a man I cannot see why there was nobody who caught on to the fact that it was a lady but Shakespear writes letters to this lady played by the fake male as she writes letters back to him and during the end of the movie they both recognize eachother and fall in love. She then is to be married by the Duke of Earl in whom she hates and tries to marry Shakespear instead but after all of the lovemaking and promises she finds that Shakespear is married and is doing nothing but cheating on his wife. He then convinces her that he's really in love with her and the rest but most of the movie is about this little love triangle between the two. It gets very boring seeing this goof acting as if he is a ladies man and she falls in love with him but deserves much better than him. After all she is the rich one out of the two and he just a poor playwriter who can't make up his mind. This movie is slow and boring and deserves nothing more than a 4 on the list of votes.