ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The film depicts a fictional love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare (Fiennes) and Viola de Lesseps (Paltrow) while Shakespeare was writing Romeo and Juliet. Several characters are based on historical figures, and many of the characters, lines, and plot devices allude to Shakespeare’s plays.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare in Love, American-British film, released in 1998, that was a lighthearted and clever imagining of how William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet came to be written and produced.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare in Love contains several references to Twelfth Night. Near the end of the movie, Elizabeth I (Judi Dench) asks Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) to write a comedy for the Twelfth Night holiday.

Detailed explanation-4: -In “Shakespeare in Love, ” Barnes said, the actors’ accents are wrong ("not broad enough"); their demeanor too restrained ("not country enough"); and the director’s eye, not accurate enough. Barnes points out that, during the 16th century, no one would have been drinking from a glass beaker.