SHAKESPEARE IN

LOVE
A DISCUSSION
 WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT...

A) The patrons of the theatres

B) The issue of writer’s block
C) The relationship between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe
D) The Muse
E) The two theatre companies
F) The closing of the theatre
 WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT...
1- Queen Elizabeth’s view of the theatre and of plays
2- Gender diferences in the theatre
3- What Viola wished for
4- What Wessex really wanted
5- The impact Viola’s performance of Juliet had on the audience
6- The Theatre-goers
 DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE?
1- Theatre was a major form of entertainments for the masses.
2- For the playwrights, theatre was business.
3- The aristocrats had the ultimate authority and influenced the style of the
plays.
4- The love between Will and Viola is impossible.
5- Mr Tilney exemplifies the Puritans’ view of the theatre.
6- ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a success because of Viola.
 HOW MANY FACTS DOES THE FILM
ADAPTATION SHOW...
1- concerning the Elizabethan era?
2- concerning William Shakespeare’s family?
3- concerning WS’s plays?
4- concerning the playhouses?
5- concerning the Queen?
6- concerning the Black Plague?
 WHO SAID THESE LINES?
A- "Playwrights teach nothing about love, they make it pretty, they make it
comical, or they make it lust. They cannot make it true."
B- “I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No...
not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the
amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable,
ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or
rapture.”
Lord Wessex: [about Viola] Is she obedient?
SirLord
Robert de Lesseps:
Wessex: [about As anyIsmule
Viola] she in Christendom - but if you are the man to ride her, there are rubies in the saddlebag.
obedient?
Lord
SirWessex: I like
Robert de her!
Lesseps: As any mule in Christendom - but if you are the man to ride her, there are rubies in the saddlebag.
Lord Wessex: I like her!

WHO SAID THESE LINES?

C- “ Can you love a fool?”
“Can you love a player?”
D- “I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do
know about that...”
E- “Is she obedient?”
“As any mule in Christendom- but if you are the man to ride her, there are
rubies in the saddlebag.
“I like her!”
Philip Henslowe: The show must... you know...
William
PhilipShakespeare:
Henslowe: The[prompting him] you
show must... Go on!
know...
William Shakespeare: [prompting him] Go on!

WHO SAID THESE LINES?

F- “The show must...”
“(prompting him) Go on!”
G- “Henslowe! Do you know what happens to a man who doesn't pay his debts? His
boots catch fire!”
H- “The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast.
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. We must show them
that we are men of parts. Will Shakespeare has a play. I have a theatre. The Curtain is
yours.”
 WHO SAID THESE LINES?
I- “My lady, the house is stirring. It is a new day.
“It is a new WORLD.”
J- “How is this to end?”
“As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey.”
 WHO SAID THESE LINES?
K- “Follow that boat!”
“Right you are, guv'nor!... I know your face. Are you an actor?”
“Yes.”
“Yes, I've seen you in something. That one about a king.”
“Really?”
“I had that Christopher Marlowe in my boat once.”