Viola, passionate about the theater at a time when women were forbidden from the stage, disguises herself as a man named "Thomas Kent" to audition for and join Will’s company.
The film is packed with "in-jokes" for theater fans and literary references, portraying Elizabethan London's theater scene as a chaotic, business-driven world. Shakespeare_in_Love_1998
Suffering from severe writer's block while trying to pen "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) finds new inspiration in Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow). Viola, passionate about the theater at a time