I'll just put this out there, I hate Shakespeare! I hated studying him at school, learning about his techniques etc. the only good thing about him was the second film of Romeo and Juliet, when Leonardo Dicaprio played Romeo. Anyway when I saw the advert I was immediately drawn in, mainly because Joseph Fiennes looked good (28 when filmed) and he still looks fairly good for 43 ;).
Spolier, I'm going to tell you what happens. It's very predictable from start to end but it so well written I really didn't care.
There's this lovely young lady, Violia, played by Gwyneth Paltrow who loves William Shakespeare's plays and obviously when she hears that Will's auditioning for another play, she want's to go however she had to dress up as a man because obviously women weren't allowed on stage; she calls this boy Thomas Kennisk, who gets the roll of Romeo.
There's this lovely young lady, Violia, played by Gwyneth Paltrow who loves William Shakespeare's plays and obviously when she hears that Will's auditioning for another play, she want's to go however she had to dress up as a man because obviously women weren't allowed on stage; she calls this boy Thomas Kennisk, who gets the roll of Romeo.
In the mean time Will visits Violia's house and actually meets her, as the girl, where it's love at first sight. Will writes letters to her, and her love grows for him through rehearsals but Will still thinks its Thomas. Eventually Will discovers that Thomas is actually Violia in disguise, they then have to hide their love in front of the other actors; but obviously then Violia's disguise is fully blown and everybody finds out about her. Violia is made to marry a man she doesn't love instead of William but after her wedding discovers that 'Romeo and Juliet' is been preformed at one of the play houses.
At the play house the man playing Juliet is unable to preform, so Violia sneaks back stage to take his place; to everybody's surprise that a woman comes on stage, the audience fall silent. When the play ends the audience is in an uproar because of the amazing performance and all seems well until the very end when William and Violia have to go their separate ways. It's all very emotional.
Overall it's a fantastic film, I would definitely recommend it to lovers of Shakespeare but I think anybody would enjoy it even if you don't like Shakespeare like myself.
Love Daisy x
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