Shakespeare In Love is a romantic comedy for the 1990's, telling the witty, sexy story behind the creation of the greatest love story of them all - Romeo and Juliet. Young Will Shakespeare is the up-and-coming playwrite of the time but has been disastrously struck by the bane of the writer's life - writer's block. His comedy 'Romeo and Ethel The Pirate's Daughter' is not going anywhere and the playhouse is under threat of closure. What Will needs is a muse - and she appears in the form of the beautiful (and betrothed) Lady Viola. The path of true love doesn't run smooth for Will, however - Viola is engaged to be married to the insufferable Lord Wessex at the command of Queen Elizabeth. The joys and tragedy of his own life find their way onto the page in a moving, witty and spellbinding tale...