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Tom Stoppard has always had an ear for the Bard, stretching back to his surreal and hilarious early plays Rosencrantz and Guildernstein are Dead and Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoots Macbeth. For those who have already seen the film of Shakespeare in Love, this screenplay offers a chance to savour Stoppard's exuberant collaboration with the renowned screenwriter Marc Norman. The result gives us amongst many other things a dog, Hamlet, Kit Marlowe, Elizabeth I and probably one of the best screenplays based around Shakespeare in modern cinema.
The pace of the script, from its opening long shot of London in 1593, to the final shot of Viola (played in the film by Gwyneth Paltrow) walking off into her brave new world, is breathtaking. The verbal fireworks and Shakespearean borrowings are not only worthy of the Bard himself, but perfectly recreate the conditions of the Elizabethan theatre. The jokes and allusions fly thick and fast, often straining the agility of even the most nimble Shakespeare scholar, but at the heart of the screenplay is both a compelling love story and an ingenious perspective on the inspiration behind both Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. A wonderful piece of writing--long may Shakespeare in Love keep the Bard in fashion! --Jerry Brotton
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Tom Stoppard's screenplay of the film "Shakespeare in Love", strongly tipped to win an Oscar in 1999. It is 1593 and Will Shakespeare - rising young light of the Elizabethan stage - struggles with writer's block.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"Shakespeare in Love" owns a radiating warmth, a wonderful sense of wit and humour and at the same time draws you into its spell by being breathtakingly romantic. So if you want to read only one book this year, make it this one. The same applies for the movie: Go and watch it and you will definitely fall in love with Shakespeare just as much as I did!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not the product it claims to be. For those of us serious about film to want a screenplay, we want to see what was actually written, not a retrospective transcript made from the film by someone who doesn't know how to set out a screenplay properly. We also don't have the voice of the writers here.
I bought this as a screenwriter, who, as part of my work reads scripts to help improve my own craft. There are many giveaways that this is not a professionally written script and it speaks badly of Faber for publishing it as such - there is probably a legal point that thi sis being sold as something it is not.
The type is tiny, the pages cheap, the black and white occasional pictures are of a poor print quality. There's no writer's introduction (which is a giveaway that it's not the real screenplay). And to make matters worse, mine was not sold in the condition advertised.
I bought this as a screenwriter, who, as part of my work reads scripts to help improve my own craft. There are many giveaways that this is not a professionally written script and it speaks badly of Faber for publishing it as such - there is probably a legal point that thi sis being sold as something it is not.
The type is tiny, the pages cheap, the black and white occasional pictures are of a poor print quality. There's no writer's introduction (which is a giveaway that it's not the real screenplay). And to make matters worse, mine was not sold in the condition advertised.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
...particularly if you are one of those people who think Shakespeare is boring or too difficult (most of us remember the NIGHTMARE of getting through one play at school, right?). Well, kiss boredom goodbye, banish your nightmares and prepare for a TREAT! This is funny, intelligent, fast-paced and heartbreaking, all at same time - rather like Shakespeare, in fact!
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