Shakespeare in Love would go on to win seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Gwyneth Paltrow), Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench), and Best Original Screenplay. In 1593 London, William Shakespeare is a sometime player in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and poor playwright for Philip Henslowe, owner of The Rose Theatre. Shakespeare is working on a new comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter". Suffering from writer's block, he has barely begun the play, and is further distracted by attempts both to seduce Rosaline, the mistress of Richard Burbage, owner of the rival Curtain Theatre and to convince Burbage to buy the
An Experiment in Love An Experiment in Love An Experiment in Love is a novel by Hilary Mantel first published in 1995 by Penguin Books. A chance news article on a former schoolmate, Julia Lipcott, triggers a flood of memories for Carmel McBain, who reflects back on their time as school mates together. The novel oscillates between Carmel's upbringing in a convent school in Lancashire where she met Karina, the daughter of Eastern European immigrants, and the 1970s when she, Karina and Julia attended the University of London together. Carmel meets Karina after an absence from school as a child and despite living in