Shakespeare in love - Movie Review Example

Movie Review: Shakespeare in Love Shakespeare in Love is an excellent masterpiece that gives the audience a true picture about Shakespeare’s true inspiration behind his romantic writings and plays. The movie was released in 1998. It is a light romantic-comedy film which was directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and story-play by Tom Stoppard. Main theme:Love; Found and Lost:Love is the basic theme of the movie. The central idea behind the making of the film revolves around how Shakespeare found his love which he lost and cherished forever through his writings and plays.

The theme of the movie is the love which is not meant to become real due to differences and difficulties between the lover (Shakespeare) and his beloved (Viola de Lesseps). The film revolves around the basic fact that how love changed the life of Shakespeare; once when he was betrayed by his lover and the time, when he was unable to complete his comedy play as the tragedy of Romeo Juliet and at the other time, when Viola de Lesseps brought happiness and inspiration in his life and he completed his project under the influence of love.

Love can leave a huge impact on the life of a person; either negatively or positively. What I Learnt About William Shakespeare:After watching this movie, I felt that William Shakespeare, the greatest writer as known to the entire world, had same emotional feelings like any of us. He was no different from a common man. Love was the greatest inspiration in his life which made him a successful man and an emotional playwright. The Theater and the Elizabethan Age:During the Elizabethan age, theater and literature rose to a great height.

Queen Elizabeth was very much fond of Shakespeare’ plays and supported the theaters. However, during this period women were not allowed to participate in plays and theaters due to societal norms and restrictions. In this movie, Viola de Lesseps went against the rules of society and disguised herself as a man to participate in Shakespeare’s play but the theater had to pay the heavy price for her involvement in the play as soon as the officials came to know about the truth. The movie highlights the era when women were deprived of their rights and involvement in arts and literature much broadly.

Personal Analysis on the Movie:After watching the movie, I realized that William Shakespeare had the same feelings like an ordinary man who derived his inspirations from living examples, more particularly, his own ones. Love has played a key role in giving a romantic and emotional touch to his work. In the movie, he has appeared as a sensitive man to whom love meant everything and a divine inspiration which helped him to achieve new heights in the world of arts and literature. Work Cited:Norman, M.

and Stoppard, T. Shakespeare In Love. Universal Studios (1998)