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
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