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Shakespear Although very little historical information is known about the man responsible for many of the greatest literary achievements of all time, the audiences which have witnessed Shakespeare's plays have felt a close personal relationship with him. Through his work, Shakespeare has shared his deepest feelings and most personal experiences over and over again. Art is an expression of the self, and regardless of how many factual events are placed in a body of work, true art remains autobiographical. This is the reason that Shakespeare's writing has become such an important part of our culture and society; the amount of personalized energy with which his work is infused makes every word a personal experience. This is also the reason that Tom Stoppard felt drawn to write Shakespeare in Love, a fictionalized biography of Shakespeare's experiences that inspired him to write the masterpiece Romeo and Juliet. Elements from the historical events surrounding the development of theatre and generally accepted speculations about Shakespeare's life are combined with elements from Shakespearian plays as well as autobiographical pieces from Stoppard's own life. In no way is Shakespeare in Love a simple retelling of Romeo and Juliet, and there are many differences between the romantic affair of the Shakespeare play and that present in Stoppard's work. The characters of William and Viola do parallel the infamous couple from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet throughout the film Shakespeare in Love, and this is presented through specific scene recreations, overall plot similarity, and cinematic devices which emphasize...

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This event is presented in the movie as being the inspiration for the scene which takes place the morning after Romeo and Juliet are married. In the fictionalized biographical scene, Will must leave to continue writing the play which is horribly overdue. In the Shakespearian play, Romeo has been banished, and their affair together must not be discovered. In both cases, there is an important reason why the male must depart from the room. Neither of them wants to leave, but they are forced to leave because of the situation. The nurse is the one who breaks up the lovers in both of these scenes, being presented as the inspiration for the Nurse in the play. Both of these scenes also take place in the early morning, around the time of dawn.
There is not one single scene that shows the similarity between the characters Will and Viola and Romeo and Juliet; the entire relationship of the first couple is meant to parallel and be the inspiration for the relationship of the latter. Will meets Viola at a ball which is being held by her father. The ball is celebrating her engagement to another man, Wessex. This is very much like the scene where Romeo and Juliet first meet, at a ball being held by Juliet's family. Will cannot speak when he meets Viola because he is struck by her beauty, which is unlike Romeo who is able to speak magnificently of his feelings. The bravado with which Romeo…

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references to Hamlet, MacBeth, and other Shakespearian plays as well as Romeo and Juliet. While Romeo and Juliet was actually inspired by an ancient myth that predated Shakespeare, it is inevitable that autobiographical elements were inserted into the work by Shakespeare because all true art houses a part of the artist. The movie Shakespeare in Love is not historical fact, but it contains the very truthful elements of William Shakespeare's inner self as they were revealed to Tom Stoppard. Art does not simply imitate life; art creates life as much as it is itself created.
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