![]() ![]() Multiple drafts and rewrites were likely the norm. The Elizabethan dramatists probably had to work a lot harder on their plays than this otherwise entertaining movie lets on. One of the most misleading scenes to appear in a recent film about Shakespeare (ok, so there are not that many of them – of films, that is) occurs in Shakespeare in Love, in which we see an inspired Joseph Fiennes (as the Bard) sitting at his table with ink and paper flying about as he whips out page after page of Romeo and Juliet, guided by a Muse that allows him to create the greatest play ever written in what can only be described as an inspired frenzy. ![]() “ The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships:”Ī Brief History of a Famous Phrase. ![]()
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