Shekspeare in Love 2

• Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare.
• Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps. The original Viola was Julia Roberts in 1991. She withdrew six weeks before filming. Kate Winslet turned down the role to star in Holy Smoke!. Paltrow won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Viola.
• Colin Firth as Lord Wessex
• Ben Affleck as Ned Alleyn. Affleck joined to be close to then-girlfriend Paltrow.
• Geoffrey Rush as Philip Henslowe. Rush was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Philip, but lost to James Coburn.
• Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth. This is the second-shortest performance to win the Supporting Actress Oscar, with only six minutes of screen time. The shortest was Beatrice Straight in Network, with only five minutes and two seconds.^{[citation needed]} In the same year, Cate Blanchett was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in the same role in Elizabeth but lost to Gwyneth Paltrow [see above].
• Tom Wilkinson as Hugh Fennyman
• Antony Sher as Dr. Moth
• Imelda Staunton as Nurse
• Rupert Everett as Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe
• Martin Clunes as Richard Burbage
• Simon Callow as Edmund Tilney
• Jim Carter as Ralph Bashford
• Jill Baker as Lady de Lesseps
• Patrick Barlow as Will Kemp
• Mark Williams as Wabash
• Simon Day as First Boatsman
• Joe Roberts as John Webster

3. What's your favourite scene/s? Why?

When Shakespeare came to the balcony of Violet because I think these scene is very romantic.

-Romeo. Romeo.
-A Young Man of Verona, a comedy by William Shakespeare.
- My lady !
- Who is there ?
- Will Shakespeare.
- Madam !
-Anon, good nurse, anon.
- Oh, Master Shakespeare.
- The same, alas.
-But why ''alas'' ?
- A lowly player.
- Alas, indeed.
-For l thought you.
-the highest poet of my esteem...and a writer of plays that capture my heart.
- Oh, l am him too.
- Madam !
-Anon !
-l will come again.
-Oh, l am fortune's fool.
-l will be punished for this.
-Oh, my lady, my love !
-lf they find you here,they will kill you.
- You can bring them with a word.
-Oh, not for the world.
- Madam !
- Anon !