Shakespeare in love characters11/8/2022 ![]() ![]() In the play, Romeo Montague’s best friend, Mercutio, gets killed in a fight. Both characters try so hard to get the woman they want, but are cut off by the more wealthy guys. In the film and the play, Romeo Montague and William Shakespeare both fall in love with Juliet Capulet and Viola De Lesseps at first sight. Since both Lord Wessex and Paris are very wealthy, Juliet Capulet is forced to marry Paris and Viola De Lesseps is forced to marry Lord Wessex. Lord Wessex is a very wealthy man who is interested in marrying Viola De Lesseps, like Paris was interested in marrying Juliet Capulet. Lord Wessex, played by Collin Firth, relates to Paris in Romeo & Juliet. All-Star Cast: The film features a line-up of very accomplished British theatre actors - Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Simon Callow, Martin Clunes, Rupert Everett among others. William Shakespeare and Viola De Lesseps are basically the Romeo and Juliet of the film. Viola and Juliet both are in love with someone they cannot have and are forced to marry a man they do not want to marry. The actress, Gwyneth Paltrow, plays Viola De Lesseps in the film, she relates to how Juliet Capulet is portrayed in Romeo & Juliet. Again, both Romeo and William fall in love with someone who is being forced to marry someone else, and someone they cannot have. William and Romeo both fall in love with a girl named Rosaline, but do not end up with her. William Shakespeare, who is played by Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love, is portrayed to be some-what like Shakespeare’s character, Romeo Montague, in Romeo & Juliet. In the film they show many reenactments of how William Shakespeare may have first performed and wrote Romeo and Juliet. Actors and actresses that play the main characters in this film are Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Geoffrey Rush. Shakespeare in Love shows many similarities to the play Romeo & Juliet. ![]() John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love (1998) shows what could have happened to inspire William Shakespeare to write one of his most famous plays, Romeo & Juliet. ![]()
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