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
Ernest in Love Ernest in Love Ernest in Love is a musical with a book and lyrics by Anne Croswell and music by Lee Pockriss. It is based on "The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners. The two-act musical is an expanded version of the hour-long musical "Who's Earnest?" televised on "The United States Steel Hour" in 1957. The 1959-1960 Off-Broadway season included a dozen musicals and revues including "Little Mary Sunshine", "The Fantasticks" (based on an obscure 1894 work by Edmond Rostand, of Cyrano fame), and "Ernest in Love", a musicalization of Oscar Wilde's 1895 hit. The production