Essays on Shakespeare In Love

Movie review: Shakespeare in Love (1998)

After having been shot in 1998, the British romantic tragicomedy Shakespeare in Love won not only popular affections but also seven Oscars. Being a fiction, the film showed the true love between William Shakespeare and Viola de Lesseps. The lines, characters and plot perfectly depict the times of Queen Elizabeth.

It is London, 1593. William Shakespeare is a young and talented writer who, unfortunately, undergoes a protracted crisis because of losing his inspiration. So, he is in need of a muse. He is like a lone wolf looking for new feelings and impressions. He was asked to ...

The objective of the essay is to undergo the analysis of the movie “Shakespeare in Love” on the basis of the tenet of the Hero’s Journey as described by Joseph Campbell in his book “Hero with a Thousand Faces”. Campbell described that every story can be broken down into three acts: Departure, Initiation and the Return. It is through the passing of these three stages that the hero is made and his mission accomplished. Campbell further described 12 steps within the Acts, which has since been elaborated upon to as many as 16 stages. We shall now study the ...

Tragedy turned into comedy, comedy turned into drama. A woman turned into a man for following her artistic aspirations. A love story turned into an resigned acceptance of the life’s course, while never forgetting the shivering of love. “Shakespeare in Love” captures the paradox of life, love, friendship and gender relationship, aspects illustrated in the context of the Elizabethan England. Nevertheless, these aspects and their interpretations transposed in the movie are still applicable in our nowadays society. The movie is dynamic and appealing through its script, story, insight and interpretation. The tragedy of a love that cannot be or ...