Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter', before it's even written. When lovely noblewoman Viola de Lesseps auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love — and Shakespeare's play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship intensifies, the comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
- london
- england
- theater play
- queen elizabeth i
- playwright
- cross dressing
- false history
- francis bacon
- 16th century
- acting
- elizabethan england
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Joseph Fiennes
Will Shakespeare
Gwyneth Paltrow
Viola De Lesseps
Geoffrey Rush
Philip Henslowe
Tom Wilkinson
Hugh Fennyman
- Judi Dench — Queen Elizabeth
- Imelda Staunton — Nurse
- Colin Firth — Lord Wessex
- Ben Affleck — Ned Alleyn
- Simon Callow — Tilney
- Steven Beard — Makepeace
- Jim Carter — Ralph Bashford
- Rupert Everett — Christopher Marlowe
- Martin Clunes — Richard Burbage
- Tim McMullan — Frees
- Joe Roberts — John Webster
- Directed
- John Madden
- Written
- Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 3,271 ratings
- Studio
- Miramax, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
