The script by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, the latter of whom had previously reimagined Shakespeare with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, cleverly works in countless references to and devices from Shakespeare's plays, and incorporates much of the original text of Romeo and Juliet through the actors' rehearsals, which is performed as well as it is in any full-blown adaptation. When William Shakespeare ( Joseph Fiennes) has terrible writer's block and owes his theater a play, he finds his muse in the beautiful Viola de Lesseps ( Gwyneth Paltrow), a noblewoman who dreams of being onstage. John Madden's swoonily romantic Shakespeare in Love dramatizes the writing of Romeo and Juliet, rather than adapting the play itself, but intertwines the two narratives so deftly that we consider it an adaptation in its own right-and a wonderfully witty and original one at that.
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