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Shakespeare in Love

November 2023

  • Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot.

    Brief letters
    The show goes on for a Shakespeare film set

  • ‘This isn’t going to work!’ … Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love.

    How we made
    ‘I woke up in a cold sweat thinking: Gwyneth in a moustache’ – how we made Shakespeare in Love

June 2023

  • Judi Dench with her friend Brendan O’Hea

    ‘Mine’s lobster and champagne’: Judi Dench reveals secret onstage supper at Shakespeare play

    The Oscar-winning star discusses her Shakespearean roles and the characters she brought to life in watercolours in her new book

January 2021

  • Judi Dench, 2017

    Judi Dench: 'In my mind's eye I'm six foot and willowy and about 39'

    At 86 and in lockdown, the actor finds herself in the rare position of not working. Instead, she talks about theatrical ghosts, her friendship with Harvey Weinstein and definitely not being a national treasure

June 2020

  • Pierce Brosnan in The World is Not Enough

    Ranked
    The greatest film scenes shot on the River Thames – ranked!

    As a new David Attenborough documentary examines the waterway’s history, we rate the river’s finest movie cameos

July 2019

  • A scene from Shakespeare in Love

    Shakespeare in Love review – a merry romp and a sumptuous feast for the eye

    Melbourne Theatre Company’s adaptation of the Oscar-winning romcom works so well on stage that you wonder why it was a film in the first place

March 2019

  • The charismatic aura of a leading man ... playwright Alexis Michalik.

    Alexis Michalik: golden boy of French theatre with a nose for a hit

    The actor turned playwright is taking his work to the UK for the first time. He talks about his Shakespeare in Love-style comedy riffing on Cyrano de Bergerac

February 2019

  • Palpable hit … Harvey Weinstein, third left, and Gwyneth Paltrow with Shakespeare in Love’s Oscar haul.

    Harvey Weinstein breaks silence – to deny wanting Ben Affleck to play Shakespeare

  • Cuba Gooding Jr; Halle Berry; Gwyneth Paltrow; Angelina Jolie and James Haven; Adrien Brody and Halle Berry

    ‘Phallic mode’ and ‘childlike tears’ – decoding Oscar acceptance speeches

May 2016

  • Joseph Fiennes sitting on a chair wearing jumper and jeans

    Joseph Fiennes: the sequel

    Twenty years ago, the Shakespeare in Love star had Hollywood at his feet – then he all but disappeared. So what happened? He tells Tim Adams

March 2016

  • William Shakespeare

    Mark Lawson's theatre studies
    Where's Willy? Why there are so few plays about Shakespeare

    In 400 years since his death, only a few playwrights – including George Bernard Shaw and Edward Bond – have turned the Bard into a character

May 2013

  • Iron Man 3 Premiere

    The Observer profile
    Gwyneth Paltrow: loved, loathed, but never ignored

  • Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors

    Five best moments
    Gwyneth Paltrow: five best moments

October 2012

  • Sandy Powell - Daniel Day-Lewis

    Stitches in time: Sandy Powell's Oscar-winning costumes

    She has dressed everyone from Elizabeth I to Shakespeare, from lovelorn housewives to gangster dandies. As her work goes on show, Sandy Powell explains the tricks of the trade

February 2012

  • patrick stewart simon callow

    Bard labour: Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow tackle Shakespeare the man

    What kind of a man was Shakespeare? A cold husband and a cruel father – or quite the party man? Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow, who are recreating his life in two very different productions, talk to Andrew Dickson

October 2011

  • Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love (1998)

    Tom Stoppard pens Shakespeare in Love stage adaptation

    Co-writer of award-winning 1998 film will adapt script for London theatre show with help of Disney, according to reports

September 2011

  • Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love

    Reel history
    Shakespeare in Love leaves academics feeling smug

    Alex von Tunzelmann: John Madden's entertaining reimagining of the Bard's creative process makes enough witty allusions to recorded events to keep all but the most severe students of Shakespeare happy

January 2011

  • Marion Cotillard, Leonardo DiCaprio

    Hollywood takes a safe bet for 2011 with the year of the repeat

    To critics' dismay and despite the success of original films like Inception, the movies on this year's agenda announced by Harvey Weinstein are sequels, spin-offs and remakes of past hits

July 2009

  • Play it again

    Review: Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Helen Hackett
    Andrew Dickson is intrigued by rumours surrounding the player king and real-life queen

March 2009

  • French revolution

    Robert McCrum on books
    Which literary biography should be adapted next?

    With a musical of Shakespeare in Love on the way, Hollywood should be considering the literary terrain of the Gunpowder plot and the French revolution

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