ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Writer Marc Norman, inspired by a suggestion from one of his sons, began writing a script for Shakespeare in Love in the late 1980s and sold it to Universal Pictures. The studio then brought in playwright Tom Stoppard to add to the script.

Detailed explanation-2: -Synopsis. The film centres around the forbidden love of William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) and a noble woman, Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow). As the film begins, Shakepeare’s patron Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush) finds himself in debt to loan shark Hugh Fennyman (Tom Wilkinson).

Detailed explanation-3: -We get tears and a journey when Viola must leave with Lord Wessex, her husband, to America. Before she leaves, she inspires Will to write Twelfth Night in which he imagines her ship wrecks, killing everyone (especially Wessex who he probably fantasizes being eaten by sharks as well), but Viola survives.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bloodthirsty child and early years In the film Shakespeare in Love (1998), John Webster makes a cameo as a young street urchin who enjoys feeding live mice to cats.