![]() ![]() ![]() The film gets most of the little stuff right, oddly enough would it had lavished the same care on the big stuff. On the plus side, the supporting cast, sets, and costumes are excellent. ![]() I hope we don't get a sequel called "Shakespeare in a Jealous Rage" that shows him killing his wife so he can write Othello. Leaving aside the ample evidence that the playwright may have been the least blocked writer who ever lived, he always used other texts as the basis for his plays. Then there's the idea that Shakespeare was blocked and needed experience to write from. I normally like Paltrow, but this film lowered my opinion of her acting chops. But Gwyneth Paltrow in a tiny fake moustache is about as masculine as a troupe of ballerinas at a quilting bee, so believing that everyone was fooled requires some serious IQ-shaving. I'm not saying it wasn't possible for a woman to cross-dress in early modern England it happened. As for the love story and its theatrical issue, both were the height of silliness. I almost walked out when John Webster, who would soon be writing complex, intellectual plays, was depicted as a child torturing rats and informing on Shakespeare's company, but that was just one of many instances. Knowing a lot about Renaissance drama just makes the film galling, as real historical figures are wrenched from their actual lives and made to serve a contrived and fantastical plot. I disagree with those who say knowing Shakespeare adds to a viewer's enjoyment, unless what is known is a play or two and some half-remembered facts about Elizabethan London. I disagree with those who say knowing Shakespeare adds to a viewer's enjoyment, unless what is known is a play or two and some half-remembered facts I'm not usually one to fault a film for historical inaccuracy, but this one went too far-and then failed to compensate with a decent story. Whether as a source of comedy, drama, debate, or passion, sex in Shakespeare's plays and poems is always intriguing, and there is no better guide to this subject than Stanley Wells.I'm not usually one to fault a film for historical inaccuracy, but this one went too far-and then failed to compensate with a decent story. Just Good Friends, investigates his depiction of same-gender relationships. Whores and Saints looks at his portrayals of the extremes of womanhood, and a final chapter, Lust and love to sexual jealousy in four major plays and to Romeo and Juliet as the play in which Shakespeare focuses most centrally on issues relating to sex, love, and the relationship between them. Chapters cover everything from the fun that Shakespeare gets out of sex in his comedies to the ways he relates sexual desire to both In the second half of the book, Wells goes on to explore the variety of ways in which Shakespeare treats sexuality in his plays and how he relates sexuality to love. Wells even points to specific recorded events that find their way into lines and subplots in the plays. Of his family and providing a fascinating account of depictions of sexuality in the poetry of the period. Whats your favourite Shakespeare inspired film For many of us, the 1998 classic Shakespeare in Love is the one we return to again and again. ![]() Wells thoroughly explores this milieu, demonstrating what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of Shakespeare and members Town's records reveal many cases of slander involving accusations of cuckoldry and whoredom, as well as many prosecutions for fornication, sexual incontinence, and adultery. Shakespeare's Stratford was a hotbed of small-town gossip the With His Dozens Of Plays And Poems About Tragedy, Crime, And Sex, There Always Seem To Be Undertones Of Love. Pre-eminent Shakespeare critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behavior-and its consequences-in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. Nobody Seems To Capture The Human Spirit Quite Like Shakespeare. Here is a lively look at how Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality in his plays and poems relates to the sexual conventions, sexual mores, and actual sexual behaviors of his day. ![]()
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