The best part was where she stabbed herself. On and on the complications pile up. Viola is given in marriage to a most unappetizing suitor, as Shakespeare and she snatch desperate moments of love and sex, barely escaping the suitor s wrath. And amid all this the first production of the great romantic tragedy comes together. The movie, as well as the play within it, is a beautiful piece of work.
People dodge wagons, horses, and garbage thrown from above.
The theatres of the day are rendered with accuracy, and they work to enhance the scenes of both the play in progress and the backstage goings-on. He combines a sexy, boyish charm with a believable persona as a writer who knows his own talent.