Shakespeare in Love that the claim was "unwarranted". The film is "not constrained by worries about literary or historical accuracy" and includes anachronisms such as a reference to Virginia tobacco plantations, at a time before the Colony of Virginia existed. A leading character is a member of the House of Wessex, which died out in 1066. Queen Elizabeth I never entered a public theatre, as she does in the film. Between "Romeo and Juliet" and "Twelfth Night", Shakespeare wrote ten other plays over a period of six years. The biggest historical liberty concerns the central theme of Shakespeare struggling to create the story
Gaius Scribonius Curio Gaius Scribonius Curio Gaius Scribonius Curio was the name of a father and son who lived in the late Roman Republic. Gaius Scribonius Curio Burbulieus (d. 53 BC) was a Roman statesman and orator. He was nicknamed Burbulieus (after an actor) for the way he moved his body while speaking. Curio was noted as a public orator and for the purity of his Latin language. Curio was a tribune of the plebs in 90 BC. He later served as a legate under Lucius Cornelius Sulla in Greece and Asia during the campaign against Mithridates. He laid siege to the tyrant