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I chose to write a review on Shakespeare in Love written by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman and directed by John Madden for paper three. I have heard from many people that it was a great movie and with a wonderful plot and great acting. This movie presents a hypothesis of how the Romeo and Juliet came to be. I was very impressed by the amount of detail that was paid to recreating the; I loved how the story just seemed to draw you in, not only behind the scenes of the theater, but into the mind of the playwright. This movie is a comedy because no one dies; all the main characters live throughout the entire movie. The only character that did perish was Christopher Marlowe, but he was not a main character even though he was Shakespeare’s competition as a playwright. This was a comedy with an ironic ending, both Will and Viola (like Romeo and Juliet) learn that their love cannot be because of society and they are forced apart