Shakespeare in Love to Lord Wessex. Shakespeare accompanies her, disguised as her female cousin. There, he persuades Wessex to wager £50 that a play can capture the true nature of love, the exact amount Shakespeare requires to buy a share in the Chamberlain's Men. Queen Elizabeth I declares that she will judge the matter when the occasion arises. When Burbage finds out that Shakespeare has both seduced Rosaline and cheated him out of the money he was paid for the play, he goes to the Rose Theatre with his Curtain Theatre Company and starts a brawl. The Rose Theatre company drives Burbage and
Shakespeare in Love his marriage to Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999, the year after the film's release. However, after watching "Shakespeare in Love", he reportedly became attracted to the title of the character played by Colin Firth, and asked her mother Queen Elizabeth II to be given the title of Earl of Wessex instead. American Film Institute recognition: In 2005, the Writers Guild of America ranked its script the 28th greatest ever written. In November 2011, "Variety" reported that Disney Theatrical Productions intended to produce a stage version of the film in London with Sonia Friedman Productions. The production was officially announced in November