MAIN CHARACTERS
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: He was a theatre writter. He wanted to fell in love because he wanted to write a play of love. He fell in love with Lady Viola, a noble dame.
- LADY VIOLA: She is a noble dame who wanted to be an actress. She started to dress like a man and to play in the new work of Shakespeare. She fell in love with Shakespeare, but she had to get married with another man.
RELATION BETWEEN THE FILM AND THE PLAY 'ROMEO & JULIET'
In the film, Shakespeare was working in the play. He changed the title of it three times. At the begining of the film, Shakespeare wanted to write a romantic comedy, but then, when he knew the end of his love with Lady Viola, he changed the end and he wrote a tragedy.
THE THEATRE OF THE AGE
The theatre was made of wood, it had some terraces in which you could saw the stage. In the theatre, only mens could act.
THE SOCIETY OF THE AGE
We can see in the film the inequality of the age. We can see the man who have 'The Rose' theatre who have many debts and he pay it with the theatre beneficts or the boy who lived with his own works. But we can see the richness of the Queen and the noble people like Lady Viola family.
THE HISTORY
In the film we can see the Queen Elizabeth I (the first) and his society, so we see the XVI Century.
RELATION BETWEEN THE QUEEN AND THE THEATRE
In the film we saw the Queen in the theatre and she sayed that she loves the theatre and the Shakespeares works.
