Shakespeare in Love Themes
Love
"Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs." () "Why are you grown so rude? What change is this,Sweet love?." " Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" We could fill a whole book with love quo...
Art and Culture
Who among the cast and crew of a play has the hardest job? Is it the writer, creating the plot and characters? The actors, who must bring flat text on a page to life? Or the director, who must wran...
Gender
In the 1980's and 90's, two major acting nominations at the Academy Awards went to gender-bending performers. Linda Hunt (the awesome woman from NCIS: Los Angeles) won a Best Support Actress for pl...
Society and Class
In modern day, playwrights are practically celebrities. You know the names of American masters like Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. And modern-day playwrights like Tom Stoppard (who worked on...