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Feb 12, 2016 · Romeo and Juliet isn’t the only Shakespeare work that is little bit strange; in fact a pretty large number of his works depict love in ways that are off-putting. Even the most dedicated...
- Lee Jamieson
- Love in 'Romeo and Juliet' "Romeo and Juliet" is widely regarded as the most famous love story ever written. Shakespeare’s treatment of love in this play is masterful, balancing different representations and burying them at the heart of the play.
- Love in 'As You Like It' "As You Like It" is another Shakespeare play that positions love as a central theme. Effectively, this play pits different types of love against each other: romantic courtly love versus bawdy sexual love.
- Love in 'Much Ado About Nothing' In "Much Ado About Nothing," Shakespeare once again pokes fun at the conventions of courtly love. In a similar device employed in As You Like It, Shakespeare pits two different types of lovers against each other.
- Love in 'Sonnet 18': Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? is widely considered to be the greatest love poem ever written.
Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 period romantic comedy film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, and produced by Harvey Weinstein. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench.
The film script of ‘Shakespeare in Love’ was co-written by Marc Norman and the playwright Tom Stoppard who have created a new work by taking some of the accepted facts of Shakespeare’s life and times and juggling them with aspects, ideas and actual words from Shakespeare’s plays, (in particular ‘Romeo and Juliet’).
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- As You Like It
- Hamlet
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Orlando has been writing poems to his beloved Rosalind and hanging them on trees around the Forest of Arden. Ok, so they’re not love letters per se, but Rosalind (disguised as a man named Ganymede) does discover them and reads one aloud: Oh, that’s rough going. Work on your rhymes, Orlando. It’s a good thing that Rosalind has already fallen for him...
Hamlet is no novice when it comes to passionate language, as he proves in the love letter he writes to Ophelia. In this scene, Polonius is reading it aloud to Claudius and Gertrude. (That’s right. Ophelia has received a love letter from her boyfriend, and now her dad is reading that letter aloud to her boyfriend’s mother and uncle. How mortifying.)...
Let’s set the scene. Lucetta delivers a letter to her mistress, Julia, from an admirer, Proteus. Julia pretends that she doesn’t want to read the letter and rips it up. However, once Lucetta leaves, Julia scrambles to reassemble the letter and divine its contents. What other love letters can we find in Shakespeare’s plays?
Much Ado About Nothing is also notable for its secondary plot, in which Hero’s cousin Beatrice and her potential romantic interest, Benedick, trade witty insults and express skepticism about love throughout the play. Their “merry war” ends with the two on equal footing, admitting their love for one another.
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Lee Hall’s version of this successful screenplay follows the same story of Shakespeare meeting and falling in love with a aristocratic woman named Viola De Lesseps who wishes she could be an actor, and transforms it for the stage, just as Shakespeare did with stories in his day.
