Judi Dench Dench commented that the project launched her Hollywood career and joked that "it was thanks to Harvey, whose name I have had tattooed on my bum". Dench's other film of 1997 was Roger Spottiswoode's "Tomorrow Never Dies", her second film in the "James Bond" series. The same year, Dench reteamed with director John Madden to film "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), a romantic comedy-drama that depicts a love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare, played by Joseph Fiennes, while he was writing the play "Romeo and Juliet". On her performance as Queen Elizabeth I, "The New York Times" commented that "Dench's shrewd,
Peter and Alice Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw, breaks your heart open."". However, there was some criticism of the play. Henry Hitchings in "The Evening Standard" wrote: "" this is a piece that uses lush language to compensate for its lack of real dynamism"". Despite this, the critics applauded the performance of Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw, with one critic saying ""Dame Judi and Mr Whishaw are good, she almost Queen Motherly these days, he so sensitive, so irredeemably moist, that he could do with sponging."" Peter and Alice Peter and Alice is a play by American writer John Logan based on the