The film Shakespeare in Love, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, premiered in 1998 to rave reviews. The screenwriters were interested in exploring “How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare?” a question that had not yet been explored despite the world’s fascination with the famous playwright. The story is fiction and imagines circumstances which may have led a young Shakespeare to write his most famous play Romeo and Juliet. The story is populated with characters who were actually alive during Shakespeare’s life and who he probably interacted with, such as Richard Burbage, Christopher
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