
The Region 2 DVD contains some deleted scenes: As the company rehearses his new play, William and Viola's love is transferred to the written page leading to the masterpiece that is Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare soon sees through her disguise and they begin a love affair, one they know cannot end happily for them as he is already married and she has been promised to the dour Lord Wessex (Colin Firth). Dressing as a man, and going by the name of "Thomas Kent", she auditions and is ideal for a part in his next play. She is also a great admirer of Shakespeare's works. She loves the theatre and would like nothing more than to take to the stage, but is forbidden from doing so as only men can be actors. He is in search of his muse, the woman who will inspire him but all attempts fail him until he meets the beautiful Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow).
A Comedy About the Greatest Love Story Almost Never Told.William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is a known but struggling poet, playwright, and actor, who not only has sold his next play to both Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush) and Richard Burbage (Martin Clunes), but now faces a far more difficult problem: he is bereft of ideas and has yet to begin writing. Lord Wessex: How is this to end? Queen Elizabeth: As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey. And for my life to come, I would not have it otherwise. Viola De Lesseps: It was we ourselves did that. William Shakespeare: I'm done with theater. William Shakespeare: Hmm? Viola De Lesseps: And that was only my first try. Viola De Lesseps: I would not have thought it: there IS something better than a play! William Shakespeare: There is. William Shakespeare: It is strange to me, too. Viola De Lesseps: I have never undressed a man before. William Shakespeare: Like a sickness and its cure together. Viola de Lesseps: Tell me how you love her, Will. Lord Wessex: Is she obedient? Sir Robert de Lesseps: As any mule in Christendom - but if you are the man to ride her, there are rubies in the saddlebag. Hugh Fennyman: How? Philip Henslowe: I don't know. Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do? Philip Henslowe: Nothing. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace. The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned. "Will Shakespeare has a play, let us go and cough through it." You see? The comsumptives plot against me. Love denied blights the soul we owe to God. Go, make your farewell, and send her out. Master Kent, as I foretold, Lord Wessex has lost his wife to the theater.
She's been plucked since I saw her last, and not by you. Have her then, but you're a lordly fool.I know something of a woman in a man's profession.Love - like there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that overthrows life.
I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players.We must show them that we are men of parts.
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But my father, James Burbage, had the first license to make a company of players from Her Majesty, and he drew from poets the literature of the age.
The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast.