Shakespeare in love biography
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James Shapiro:I thought it was a terrific film. Even better than what I was led to expect.
Coming from your background as a Shakespeare professor, did the screenwriters adhere closely to what we know factually about Shakespeare's life?
This film did a brilliant job re-conceiving something that was going on 400 years ago and making it into a terrific romantic comedy. A couple things were really intelligent about this movie. The writers use the year 1593, a very complicated and interesting time in Shakespeare's life, about which we know surprisingly little.
This is as good as any biography of Shakespeare.
So it was a deliberate choice to pick that year in which to set the film?
Yes. This was at the tail end of the "lost years." The writing of the script is great, because it fills in the blanks. We know historically, at this point, he has to get a large sum of money in order to become a shareholder in his acting company; the plague i
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The Everyday Genius of Shakespeare in Love
Culture
The film’s breeziness has always belied its insights about human creativity.
By Megan Garber
Earlier this year, Google introduced a chat application powered by artificial intelligence—an experimental competitor to ChatGPT and a tool that it hoped, per its marketing copy, would “be a home for your creativity, productivity and curiosity.” Understanding that some potential users might be less sanguine about a technology that blurs the line between the augmentation of human intelligence and the obsolescence of it, Google gave its new bot a canny name: Bard.
As a general term, “Bard” suggests the lyric capabilities, and the latent wisdom, of the human mind. As a specific one, it summons one of the most famous avatars of that art: William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is, at this point, his own kind of marketing message. His words double as incantations, invoked to confer legitimacy and a sheen of artistry on any he that
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Shakespeare in Love
1998 film bygd John Madden
For the theatre adaptations, see Shakespeare in Love (play).
Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 periodromantic comedy spelfilm directed bygd John Madden, written bygd Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, and produced bygd Harvey Weinstein. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench. The film depicts a fictional love romantisk händelse involving playwright William Shakespeare (Fiennes) and Viola dem Lesseps (Paltrow) during the writing of Romeo and Juliet. Several characters are based on historical figures, and many of the characters, lines, and plot devices allude to Shakespeare's plays.
Shakespeare in Love received acclaim from critics and was a box-office success, grossing $289 million worldwide and becoming the ninth-highest-grossing bio of 1998. The bio was noted for its highly skilled plotting and balancing of comedy and drama and for the high quality of its dialogue, performances, and production