1 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:01,272 Henslowe, do you know what happens to a man who doesn't pay his debts? 2 00:02:01,355 --> 00:02:03,482 His boots catch fire! 3 00:02:05,734 --> 00:02:07,652 Why do you howl!... 4 00:02:07,736 --> 00:02:10,363 when it is I who am bitten? 5 00:02:10,447 --> 00:02:13,366 - What am I, Mr. Lambert? - Bitten, Mr. Fennyman. 6 00:02:13,449 --> 00:02:15,368 How badly bitten, Mr. Frees? 7 00:02:15,451 --> 00:02:18,370 Twelve pounds, one schilling and fourpence, Mr. Fennyman, including interest. 8 00:02:18,454 --> 00:02:20,330 - Aaah! I can pay you! - When? 9 00:02:20,414 --> 00:02:23,625 Two weeks! Three weeks at the most! Oh, for pity's sake! 10 00:02:23,708 --> 00:02:25,877 Take them out. 11 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,879 Where will you find... 12 00:02:27,962 --> 00:02:29,880 Sixteen pounds, five schillings and ninepence. 13 00:02:29,964 --> 00:02:31,882 Including interest, in three weeks? 14 00:02:31,966 --> 00:02:34,676 - I have a wonderful new play. - Put them back in. 15 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,678 - It's a comedy! - Cut off his nose. 16 00:02:36,762 --> 00:02:39,305 It's a new comedy by William Shakespeare. 17 00:02:41,391 --> 00:02:43,309 - And his ears. - And a share! 18 00:02:43,392 --> 00:02:45,353 We will be partners, Mr. Fennyman! 19 00:02:47,313 --> 00:02:48,939 Partners? 20 00:02:52,817 --> 00:02:55,236 It's a crowd-tickler. 21 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,823 Mistaken identities. Shipwreck. Pirate king. 22 00:02:58,906 --> 00:03:01,742 - A bit with a dog, and love triumphant. - I think I've seen it. 23 00:03:01,825 --> 00:03:03,577 I didn't like it. 24 00:03:03,660 --> 00:03:07,372 - But this time it is by Shakespeare. - What's it called? 25 00:03:07,455 --> 00:03:10,250 Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter. 26 00:03:10,333 --> 00:03:12,418 Good title. 27 00:03:12,502 --> 00:03:15,838 A play takes time. Find the actors, rehearsals. 28 00:03:15,921 --> 00:03:18,340 Let's say we open in two weeks. 29 00:03:18,424 --> 00:03:20,842 That's, what, 500 groundlings at tuppence a head. 30 00:03:20,926 --> 00:03:24,554 In addition, 400 backsides at threepence, a penny extra for cushions. 31 00:03:24,637 --> 00:03:26,597 Call it, uh, 200 cushions. 32 00:03:26,681 --> 00:03:30,434 Say two performances for safety. How much is that, Mr. Frees? 33 00:03:30,518 --> 00:03:33,645 - Twenty pounds to the penny, Mr. Fennyman. - Correct. 34 00:03:33,729 --> 00:03:36,773 - But I have to pay the actors and the author. - Share of the profits. 35 00:03:36,857 --> 00:03:39,275 - There's never any- - Of course not. 36 00:03:39,359 --> 00:03:43,696 Oh- Oh, Mr. Fennyman, I think you might have hit upon something. 37 00:03:43,779 --> 00:03:46,282 Sign there. 38 00:03:50,202 --> 00:03:53,788 So, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter. 39 00:03:53,872 --> 00:03:55,790 Almost finished? 40 00:03:55,873 --> 00:03:59,377 Oh, without doubt he's completing it at this very moment. 41 00:04:57,553 --> 00:05:00,556 Will. Will! 42 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,016 Where is my play? 43 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:06,353 Tell me you have it nearly done. Tell me you have it started. 44 00:05:06,436 --> 00:05:09,856 Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move. 45 00:05:09,939 --> 00:05:12,692 No, no, we haven't the time. Talk prose. 46 00:05:12,775 --> 00:05:14,693 Where is my play? 47 00:05:14,777 --> 00:05:17,321 - It is all locked safe in here. - God be praised. 48 00:05:17,404 --> 00:05:19,281 Locked? 49 00:05:19,364 --> 00:05:22,701 - As soon as I find my muse. - Who is she this time? 50 00:05:22,784 --> 00:05:24,702 She is always Aphrodite. 51 00:05:24,786 --> 00:05:27,538 Aphrodite Baggot, who does it behind the Dog and Trumpet? 52 00:05:27,622 --> 00:05:30,708 Henslowe, you have no soul, 53 00:05:30,791 --> 00:05:34,461 so how can you understand the emptiness that seeks a soul mate? 54 00:05:34,544 --> 00:05:36,463 Ow! Will! 55 00:05:36,546 --> 00:05:39,465 I am a dead man, and buggered to boot. 56 00:05:39,549 --> 00:05:41,968 My theater is closed by the plague these twelve weeks. 57 00:05:42,051 --> 00:05:44,970 My actors are forced to tour the inn yards of England... 58 00:05:45,054 --> 00:05:47,973 while Mr. Burbage and the Chamberlain's Men are invited to court... 59 00:05:48,056 --> 00:05:50,976 and receive ten pounds to play your piece, 60 00:05:51,059 --> 00:05:53,978 written for my theater, by my writer, at my risk... 61 00:05:54,062 --> 00:05:55,980 when you were green and grateful. 62 00:05:56,064 --> 00:05:58,983 - What piece? Richard Crookback? - No! It's comedy they want. 63 00:05:59,066 --> 00:06:00,985 Like Romeo and Ethel. 64 00:06:01,068 --> 00:06:03,987 - Who wrote that? - Nobody. You were writing it for me. 65 00:06:04,071 --> 00:06:06,990 - I gave you three pound a month since. - Half what you owe me. 66 00:06:07,073 --> 00:06:09,409 I'm still due for One Gentleman of Verona. 67 00:06:09,492 --> 00:06:12,912 What is money to you and me? I, your patron, you, my wordwright. 68 00:06:12,995 --> 00:06:14,914 When the plague lifts, 69 00:06:14,997 --> 00:06:17,916 Burbage will have a new play by Christopher Marlowe for the Curtain. 70 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,918 - I will have nothing for the Rose. - Mr. Henslowe. 71 00:06:20,001 --> 00:06:21,920 - Will you lend me 50 pounds? - Fifty pounds? 72 00:06:22,003 --> 00:06:24,922 - What for? - Burbage offers me a partnership in the Chamberlain's Men. 73 00:06:25,006 --> 00:06:27,758 For 50 pounds, my days as a hired player are over. 74 00:06:27,842 --> 00:06:31,887 Oh, cut out my heart. Throw my liver to the dogs. 75 00:06:31,970 --> 00:06:33,889 No, then? 76 00:06:33,972 --> 00:06:36,933 Theaters are handmaidens of the devil! 77 00:06:37,017 --> 00:06:41,562 The players breed lewdness in your wives and wickedness in your children! 78 00:06:41,646 --> 00:06:46,233 And the Rose smells thusly rank by any name! 79 00:06:46,316 --> 00:06:50,946 I say, a plague on both their houses! 80 00:06:51,029 --> 00:06:52,947 Where are you going? 81 00:06:53,031 --> 00:06:55,116 My weekly confession. 82 00:07:00,287 --> 00:07:03,206 Words, words, words. 83 00:07:03,290 --> 00:07:05,709 Once, I had the gift. 84 00:07:05,792 --> 00:07:09,712 I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. 85 00:07:09,796 --> 00:07:11,714 Love that overthrows empires. 86 00:07:11,797 --> 00:07:15,217 Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire and brimstone. 87 00:07:15,301 --> 00:07:19,221 For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. 88 00:07:19,304 --> 00:07:22,724 - But now- - And yet you tell me you lie with women. 89 00:07:24,392 --> 00:07:27,144 Black Sue, Fat Phoebe, 90 00:07:27,228 --> 00:07:31,273 Rosaline, Burbage's seamstress, Aphrodite, who does it behind- 91 00:07:31,356 --> 00:07:34,151 Yes, now and again. What of it? 92 00:07:34,234 --> 00:07:35,819 I have lost my gift. 93 00:07:35,902 --> 00:07:38,321 I am here to help you. 94 00:07:38,404 --> 00:07:40,823 Tell me, in your own words. 95 00:07:45,035 --> 00:07:48,455 I- It's as if my quill is broken, 96 00:07:48,538 --> 00:07:52,459 as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, 97 00:07:52,542 --> 00:07:56,087 as if the proud tower of my genius has collapsed. 98 00:07:56,170 --> 00:07:58,005 - Interesting. - Nothing comes. 99 00:07:58,089 --> 00:07:59,965 Most interesting. 100 00:08:00,049 --> 00:08:02,801 It's like trying to pick a lock with a wet herring. 101 00:08:04,553 --> 00:08:08,514 Tell me, are you lately humbled in the act of love? 102 00:08:11,892 --> 00:08:13,686 How long has it been? 103 00:08:14,895 --> 00:08:17,856 A goodly length in times past, but lately- 104 00:08:17,939 --> 00:08:21,359 No, no. You have a wife, children? 105 00:08:24,070 --> 00:08:26,197 Aye. 106 00:08:27,323 --> 00:08:29,241 I was a lad of 18. 107 00:08:29,325 --> 00:08:31,743 Anne Hathaway was a woman half as old again. 108 00:08:31,827 --> 00:08:34,871 - A woman of property? - She had a cottage. 109 00:08:34,955 --> 00:08:39,709 - One day she was three months gone with child, so- - And your relations? 110 00:08:39,792 --> 00:08:43,462 - On my mother's side, the Ardens. - No, your marriage bed. 111 00:08:43,546 --> 00:08:47,132 Four years and a hundred miles away in Stratford. 112 00:08:47,215 --> 00:08:51,011 A cold bed, too, since the twins were born. 113 00:08:51,094 --> 00:08:53,012 Banishment was a blessing. 114 00:08:53,096 --> 00:08:56,682 - So, now you are free to love- - Yet cannot love, nor write it. 115 00:08:59,393 --> 00:09:03,230 Here is a- a bangle... 116 00:09:03,313 --> 00:09:06,816 found in Psyche's temple on Olympus. 117 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:09,193 Cheap at fourpence. 118 00:09:09,277 --> 00:09:14,198 Write your name on a paper and feed it into the snake. 119 00:09:14,281 --> 00:09:16,200 Will it restore my gift? 120 00:09:16,283 --> 00:09:19,703 The woman who wears the snake will dream of you, and your gift will return. 121 00:09:19,786 --> 00:09:22,997 Words will flow like a river. 122 00:09:23,081 --> 00:09:24,999 See you next week. 123 00:09:26,584 --> 00:09:29,503 - Now where? - To the palace at Whitehall. 124 00:09:30,671 --> 00:09:33,006 All right. 125 00:09:35,175 --> 00:09:36,509 Hello, Will. 126 00:09:36,593 --> 00:09:39,637 Prithee, Mr. Kempe. Break a leg. 127 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,515 - You too, good Crab. - Crab's nervous. He's never played the palace. 128 00:09:43,599 --> 00:09:46,018 When will you write me a tragedy, Will? 129 00:09:46,101 --> 00:09:49,437 - I could do it. - No, they would laugh at Seneca if you played it. 130 00:09:49,521 --> 00:09:52,774 There is no dog in the first scene, Mr. Kempe, thank you. 131 00:09:52,857 --> 00:09:55,776 - How goes it, Will? - I'm still owed money for this play, Burbage. 132 00:09:55,860 --> 00:09:58,279 Not by me. I only stole it. 133 00:09:58,362 --> 00:10:00,781 My sleeve wants for a button, Mistress Rosaline. 134 00:10:00,864 --> 00:10:03,283 Where were my seamstress' eyes? 135 00:10:03,366 --> 00:10:07,245 - When are you coming over to the Chamberlain's Men? - When I have 50 pounds. 136 00:10:07,328 --> 00:10:10,873 - You writing? - A comedy. All but done. 137 00:10:10,956 --> 00:10:12,875 A pirate comedy. 138 00:10:12,958 --> 00:10:15,294 - Wonderful. - Bring it tomorrow. 139 00:10:15,377 --> 00:10:19,089 - It's for Henslowe. He paid me. Ten pounds. - You're a liar. 140 00:10:19,172 --> 00:10:23,885 - He wants Romeo for Ned and the Admiral's Men. - Mmm. Ned's wrong for it. 141 00:10:23,968 --> 00:10:26,429 Will? 142 00:10:26,512 --> 00:10:30,432 - Here's two sovereigns. I'll give you another two when I see the pages. - Done. 143 00:10:30,516 --> 00:10:32,434 Burbage, I will see you hanged for a pickpocket. 144 00:10:32,517 --> 00:10:34,936 The queen has commanded it. She loves a comedy. 145 00:10:35,020 --> 00:10:37,605 And the Master of the Revels favors us. 146 00:10:37,689 --> 00:10:40,608 And what favor does Mr. Tilney receive from you? 147 00:10:40,691 --> 00:10:42,610 - Ask him. - She comes! 148 00:11:08,966 --> 00:11:11,343 Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus. 149 00:11:11,427 --> 00:11:13,637 Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits, 150 00:11:13,721 --> 00:11:16,515 were it not affection chains thy tender days... 151 00:11:19,601 --> 00:11:21,978 When will you write me a sonnet, Will? 152 00:11:22,061 --> 00:11:25,523 - I've lost my gift. - You left it in my bed. 153 00:11:25,606 --> 00:11:27,524 Come to look for it again. 154 00:11:33,446 --> 00:11:37,367 Are you to be my muse, Rosaline? 155 00:11:37,450 --> 00:11:40,536 Burbage has my keeping, 156 00:11:40,619 --> 00:11:42,538 but you have my heart. 157 00:11:45,249 --> 00:11:47,209 You see? The consumptives plot against me. 158 00:11:47,292 --> 00:11:49,210 Will Shakespeare has a play. 159 00:11:49,294 --> 00:11:51,713 Let's go and cough through it. 160 00:11:53,464 --> 00:11:56,717 My father weeping; my mother wailing; 161 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,555 our maid howling; our cat wringing her hands. 162 00:12:01,638 --> 00:12:05,016 Yet did not this coldhearted cur... 163 00:12:05,099 --> 00:12:08,019 shed one tear- 164 00:12:21,072 --> 00:12:22,865 You see? Comedy. 165 00:12:24,408 --> 00:12:26,911 Love, and a bit with a dog. 166 00:12:26,994 --> 00:12:29,079 That's what they want. 167 00:12:37,086 --> 00:12:41,006 He is a stone, a very pebble stone, 168 00:12:41,090 --> 00:12:45,093 and has no more pity in him than a dog! 169 00:12:45,177 --> 00:12:48,096 A Jew would have wept to have seen our parting. 170 00:12:48,179 --> 00:12:53,059 Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear, nor speaks a word- 171 00:12:53,142 --> 00:12:55,644 Well played, Master Crab! 172 00:12:56,437 --> 00:12:59,773 I commend you! 173 00:13:02,692 --> 00:13:05,403 What light is light... 174 00:13:05,486 --> 00:13:07,405 if Silvia be not seen? 175 00:13:08,531 --> 00:13:11,116 What joy is joy... 176 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,452 if Silvia be not by? 177 00:13:13,535 --> 00:13:16,455 Unless it be to think that she is by... 178 00:13:16,538 --> 00:13:20,458 and feed upon the shadow of perfection. 179 00:13:22,043 --> 00:13:24,962 Except I be by Silvia in the night, 180 00:13:25,045 --> 00:13:28,507 there is no music in the nightingale. 181 00:13:28,590 --> 00:13:31,510 Unless I look on Silvia in the day, 182 00:13:31,593 --> 00:13:35,013 there is no day for me to look upon. 183 00:13:58,367 --> 00:14:01,912 Did you like Proteus or Valentine best? 184 00:14:01,995 --> 00:14:04,914 Proteus for speaking. Valentine for looks. 185 00:14:04,998 --> 00:14:07,416 Oh, I liked the dog for laughs. 186 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:09,919 Silvia, I did not care for much. 187 00:14:10,002 --> 00:14:11,920 His fingers were red from fighting... 188 00:14:12,004 --> 00:14:15,257 and he spoke like a schoolboy at lessons. 189 00:14:15,340 --> 00:14:18,259 Stage love will never be true love... 190 00:14:18,343 --> 00:14:23,389 while the law of the land has our heroines being played by pipsqueak boys in petticoats. 191 00:14:23,472 --> 00:14:26,558 - Oh, when can we see another? - When the queen commands it. 192 00:14:26,642 --> 00:14:28,560 No, but at the playhouse. Nurse! 193 00:14:28,644 --> 00:14:32,439 Be still. Playhouses are not for wellborn ladies. 194 00:14:32,522 --> 00:14:34,774 Oh! I'm not so wellborn. 195 00:14:34,857 --> 00:14:37,276 Well-monied is the same as wellborn, 196 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,779 and well-married is more so. 197 00:14:39,862 --> 00:14:42,281 Lord Wessex was looking at you tonight. 198 00:14:42,364 --> 00:14:44,783 All the men at court are without poetry. 199 00:14:44,866 --> 00:14:47,786 If they see me, they see my father's fortune. 200 00:14:47,869 --> 00:14:51,456 I will have poetry in my life, 201 00:14:51,539 --> 00:14:53,457 and adventure. 202 00:14:54,583 --> 00:14:57,252 And love. Love above all. 203 00:14:57,336 --> 00:14:59,254 Like Valentine and Silvia? 204 00:14:59,338 --> 00:15:03,216 No, not the artful postures of love, 205 00:15:03,299 --> 00:15:07,303 but love that overthrows life. 206 00:15:07,386 --> 00:15:11,056 Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, 207 00:15:11,140 --> 00:15:15,477 and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. 208 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,230 Love as there has never been in a play. 209 00:15:19,314 --> 00:15:23,234 I will have love, or I will end my days as- 210 00:15:23,317 --> 00:15:25,236 As a nurse? 211 00:15:26,487 --> 00:15:30,115 Oh, but I would be Valentine and Silvia too. 212 00:15:30,198 --> 00:15:34,244 Oh, good nurse, God save you, and good night. 213 00:15:35,620 --> 00:15:38,539 I would stay asleep my whole life... 214 00:15:38,622 --> 00:15:42,543 if I could dream myself into a company of players. 215 00:15:42,626 --> 00:15:45,545 Clean your teeth while you dream, then. 216 00:15:48,506 --> 00:15:51,092 Now spit. 217 00:16:14,362 --> 00:16:17,907 This time the boots are coming off. 218 00:16:17,991 --> 00:16:21,369 - What have I done? - The theaters have all been closed down by the plague. 219 00:16:21,452 --> 00:16:24,371 - Oh, that. - By order of the Master of the Revels. 220 00:16:24,455 --> 00:16:28,792 Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theater business. 221 00:16:28,875 --> 00:16:32,879 The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. 222 00:16:32,962 --> 00:16:35,631 - So what do we do? - Nothing. 223 00:16:35,715 --> 00:16:39,385 - Strangely enough, it all turns out well. - How? 224 00:16:40,469 --> 00:16:42,387 I don't know. It's a mystery. 225 00:16:42,471 --> 00:16:44,389 Shall I kill him, Mr. Fennyman? 226 00:16:44,473 --> 00:16:46,391 The theaters are reopened... 227 00:16:46,474 --> 00:16:50,144 by order of the Master of the Revels! 228 00:16:50,228 --> 00:16:53,397 The theaters are reopened! 229 00:16:53,481 --> 00:16:55,399 Mr. Fennyman. 230 00:16:55,482 --> 00:16:57,901 Mr. Tilney has reopened the playhouses. 231 00:16:57,985 --> 00:17:00,278 If you wouldn't mind. 232 00:17:02,989 --> 00:17:04,907 Where's the play? 233 00:17:04,991 --> 00:17:07,827 Oh, it's coming. It's coming. 234 00:17:10,496 --> 00:17:12,414 It's coming. 235 00:17:23,591 --> 00:17:25,509 Will! 236 00:17:25,592 --> 00:17:27,511 Will, I have wonderful news. 237 00:17:27,594 --> 00:17:29,513 So have I. Romeo and Rosaline, scene one. 238 00:17:29,596 --> 00:17:31,514 God, I'm good! 239 00:17:31,598 --> 00:17:34,517 Rosaline? You mean Ethel. 240 00:17:39,772 --> 00:17:41,690 Richard? 241 00:17:43,066 --> 00:17:45,026 Burbage! 242 00:17:51,532 --> 00:17:53,450 Mr. Tilney. 243 00:17:53,534 --> 00:17:57,204 Like you, I found him not at home. 244 00:17:59,122 --> 00:18:02,000 I would've made you immortal. 245 00:18:05,294 --> 00:18:08,380 Tell Burbage he has lost a new play by Will Shakespeare. 246 00:18:08,464 --> 00:18:11,133 What does Burbage care of that? 247 00:18:11,216 --> 00:18:14,970 He's readying the Curtain for Kit Marlowe. 248 00:18:15,053 --> 00:18:18,306 - You've opened the playhouses? - I have, Master Shakespeare. 249 00:18:18,389 --> 00:18:21,392 - But the plague- - Yes, I know. 250 00:18:21,475 --> 00:18:24,395 But he was always hanging around the house. 251 00:18:38,365 --> 00:18:41,910 The special today is a pig's foot marinated in juniper berry vinegar, 252 00:18:41,994 --> 00:18:44,871 - served on a buckwheat pancake- - Will! 253 00:18:44,955 --> 00:18:46,748 Have you finished? 254 00:18:46,831 --> 00:18:48,750 Yes, nearly. 255 00:18:48,833 --> 00:18:52,044 - Good morning, Master Nol. You will have a nice part. - Yes! 256 00:18:52,128 --> 00:18:56,173 - We'll need Ralph for the pirate king. - Clear that bloody table! 257 00:18:57,424 --> 00:19:00,343 None other than the Admiral's Men are out on tour. 258 00:19:00,468 --> 00:19:02,637 I need actors! 259 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,640 Those of you who are unknown will have a chance to be known! 260 00:19:06,724 --> 00:19:10,811 - What about the money, Mr. Henslowe? - It won't cost you a penny! 261 00:19:10,894 --> 00:19:13,813 Auditions in half an hour! 262 00:19:18,234 --> 00:19:21,153 Ralph Bagswell, I'd have a part for you, 263 00:19:21,237 --> 00:19:24,073 but, alas, I hear you are a drunkard's drunkard. 264 00:19:24,156 --> 00:19:26,074 Never when I'm working. 265 00:19:26,158 --> 00:19:28,952 Never when I'm working! 266 00:19:30,203 --> 00:19:32,247 Get me to drink mandragora. 267 00:19:32,330 --> 00:19:34,248 Straight up, Will? 268 00:19:34,332 --> 00:19:37,334 Give my friend a beaker of your best brandy. 269 00:19:37,418 --> 00:19:39,628 Kit. 270 00:19:39,711 --> 00:19:43,256 - How goes it, Will? - Wonderful. Wonderful. 271 00:19:43,340 --> 00:19:46,968 - Burbage says you have a play. - I have, and the chinks to show for it. 272 00:19:47,051 --> 00:19:49,804 I insist. A beaker for Mr. Marlowe. 273 00:19:49,887 --> 00:19:52,806 I hear you have a new play for the Curtain. 274 00:19:52,890 --> 00:19:54,975 Not new. My Doctor Faustus. 275 00:19:55,058 --> 00:19:57,519 Ah. I love your early work. 276 00:19:57,602 --> 00:20:00,522 "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships... 277 00:20:00,605 --> 00:20:03,149 and burnt the topless towers of llium?" 278 00:20:03,232 --> 00:20:06,152 I have a new one nearly finished, and better. 279 00:20:06,235 --> 00:20:08,153 The Massacre at Paris. 280 00:20:08,237 --> 00:20:13,033 - Whew. Good title. - Mmm. Yours? 281 00:20:13,116 --> 00:20:15,535 Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter. 282 00:20:16,995 --> 00:20:19,539 Yes, I know. I know. 283 00:20:19,622 --> 00:20:21,540 What is the story? 284 00:20:21,624 --> 00:20:24,376 Well, there's this pirate- 285 00:20:25,961 --> 00:20:29,381 In truth, I have not written a word. 286 00:20:30,882 --> 00:20:33,009 Romeo. 287 00:20:33,092 --> 00:20:36,178 Romeo is Italian, 288 00:20:36,262 --> 00:20:38,514 always in and out of love. 289 00:20:38,597 --> 00:20:40,807 Yes, that's good. Until he meets- 290 00:20:40,891 --> 00:20:43,226 - Ethel. - Do you think? 291 00:20:43,310 --> 00:20:45,770 - The daughter of his enemy. - The daughter of his enemy. 292 00:20:45,854 --> 00:20:48,064 His best friend is killed in a duel... 293 00:20:48,147 --> 00:20:51,650 by Ethel's brother, or something- His name is Mercutio. 294 00:20:51,734 --> 00:20:53,652 Mercutio. Good name. 295 00:20:53,736 --> 00:20:57,155 - Will! They're waiting for you! - Yes, I'm coming. 296 00:20:57,239 --> 00:20:59,991 Good luck with yours, Kit. 297 00:21:00,074 --> 00:21:03,661 - I thought your play was for Burbage. - This is a different one. 298 00:21:03,744 --> 00:21:05,746 A different one you haven't written? 299 00:21:06,830 --> 00:21:08,540 Was this the face... 300 00:21:08,624 --> 00:21:11,084 that launched a thousand ships... 301 00:21:11,168 --> 00:21:13,586 and burnt the topless towers of llium? 302 00:21:13,670 --> 00:21:15,255 Thank you. 303 00:21:15,338 --> 00:21:17,924 Was this the face that launched a thousand ships... 304 00:21:18,007 --> 00:21:20,718 - and burnt the top- topless towers of llium? - Thank you! 305 00:21:20,801 --> 00:21:22,720 Was this the face... 306 00:21:22,803 --> 00:21:26,390 that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless- 307 00:21:26,473 --> 00:21:31,019 I would like to give you something from Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. 308 00:21:31,102 --> 00:21:33,354 - How refreshing. - ... the topless towers of llium? 309 00:21:33,437 --> 00:21:36,565 Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. 310 00:21:39,943 --> 00:21:41,862 W- Was this the f- 311 00:21:41,945 --> 00:21:45,073 Very good, Mr. Wabash. Report to the property master. 312 00:21:46,699 --> 00:21:48,784 My tailor wants to be an actor. 313 00:21:48,868 --> 00:21:51,287 I have a few debts here and there. 314 00:21:51,370 --> 00:21:53,372 Well, that seems to be everybody. 315 00:21:53,455 --> 00:21:55,874 - Did you see a Romeo? - I did not. 316 00:21:55,957 --> 00:21:58,209 Well, I to my work, you to yours. 317 00:21:58,293 --> 00:22:01,796 Oh, God. 318 00:22:06,217 --> 00:22:08,135 May I begin, sir? 319 00:22:09,761 --> 00:22:13,014 - Your name? - Thomas Kent. 320 00:22:13,098 --> 00:22:17,810 I - I would like to do a speech by a writer who commands the heart of every player. 321 00:22:20,646 --> 00:22:25,817 What light is light... 322 00:22:25,901 --> 00:22:28,486 if Silvia be not seen? 323 00:22:29,904 --> 00:22:34,158 What joy is joy if Silvia be not by? 324 00:22:35,576 --> 00:22:37,995 Unless it be to think that she is by... 325 00:22:38,078 --> 00:22:41,331 and feed upon the shadow of perfection. 326 00:22:43,416 --> 00:22:47,837 Except I be by Silvia in the night, 327 00:22:48,921 --> 00:22:51,507 there is no music in the nightingale. 328 00:22:52,841 --> 00:22:56,845 Unless I look on Silvia in the day, 329 00:22:56,928 --> 00:23:00,223 there is no day for me to look upon. 330 00:23:01,599 --> 00:23:06,353 She is my essence, and I leave to be if I be not- 331 00:23:06,437 --> 00:23:09,648 - Take off your hat! - My hat? 332 00:23:09,731 --> 00:23:12,525 Where'd you learn how to do that? 333 00:23:12,651 --> 00:23:14,819 - I- - Let me see you. Take off your hat. 334 00:23:14,903 --> 00:23:17,238 - Are you M-Master Shakespeare? - Wait there. 335 00:23:17,321 --> 00:23:19,198 Wait there! 336 00:23:32,251 --> 00:23:35,588 - Will, w-where are the pages? - Where is the boy? 337 00:23:37,631 --> 00:23:41,927 B- B-B-Break a leg! 338 00:23:45,638 --> 00:23:48,557 Sir, will you buy my sweet orange? 339 00:24:07,032 --> 00:24:08,951 Hey! 340 00:24:26,716 --> 00:24:29,135 Everybody ready? All away! 341 00:24:30,386 --> 00:24:33,389 - Follow that boat! - Right you are, governor. 342 00:24:37,851 --> 00:24:41,479 I know your face. Are you an actor? 343 00:24:41,563 --> 00:24:44,816 - Yes. - Yes, I think I've seen you in something. 344 00:24:44,899 --> 00:24:47,818 - That one about a king. - Really? 345 00:24:47,902 --> 00:24:50,821 I had that Christopher Marlowe in my boat once. 346 00:25:03,249 --> 00:25:07,294 - Do you know that house? - Sir Robert De Lesseps. 347 00:25:17,386 --> 00:25:21,348 Where is she? Our guests are upon us! 348 00:25:21,432 --> 00:25:25,352 Lord Wessex, too, bargaining for a bride. 349 00:25:25,435 --> 00:25:28,438 My husband will have it settled tonight. 350 00:25:28,521 --> 00:25:30,982 Stamped, sealed and celebrated. 351 00:25:31,065 --> 00:25:34,276 Tomorrow he drags me off to the country, 352 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:37,279 and it will be three weeks gone before we return from our estates. 353 00:25:40,115 --> 00:25:42,534 God save you, Mother. 354 00:25:42,617 --> 00:25:45,536 Hot water, Nurse. 355 00:25:48,789 --> 00:25:50,541 I seek Master Thomas Kent. 356 00:25:50,624 --> 00:25:52,543 - Who, sir? - The actor. 357 00:25:52,626 --> 00:25:54,961 - Who asks for him? - Will Shakespeare. 358 00:25:55,045 --> 00:25:57,047 Poet, playwright of the Rose. 359 00:25:57,130 --> 00:25:59,549 Master Kent... 360 00:25:59,632 --> 00:26:02,718 is my nephew. 361 00:26:02,802 --> 00:26:04,720 I will wait. 362 00:26:04,803 --> 00:26:07,222 Much good may it do you. 363 00:26:10,642 --> 00:26:12,894 "Romeo Montague, 364 00:26:12,977 --> 00:26:14,896 a Young Man of Verona. " 365 00:26:14,979 --> 00:26:16,897 Verona again? 366 00:26:16,981 --> 00:26:18,899 "A comedy of quarreling families... 367 00:26:18,983 --> 00:26:21,235 reconciled in the discovery of Romeo... 368 00:26:21,318 --> 00:26:23,737 to be the very same Capulet cousin... 369 00:26:23,820 --> 00:26:27,615 stolen from the cradle and fostered to manhood by his Montague mother... 370 00:26:27,699 --> 00:26:32,161 that was robbed of her own child by the pirate king. " 371 00:26:32,244 --> 00:26:34,163 Your mother and your father- 372 00:26:34,246 --> 00:26:37,165 From tomorrow, away in the country for three weeks! 373 00:26:37,249 --> 00:26:39,668 Is Master Shakespeare not handsome? 374 00:26:39,751 --> 00:26:42,670 - He looks well enough for a charlatan. - Oh, Nurse! 375 00:26:42,754 --> 00:26:44,672 He would give Thomas Kent... 376 00:26:44,756 --> 00:26:46,674 the life of Viola De Lesseps' dreaming. 377 00:26:46,757 --> 00:26:49,176 My lady, when your parents return, I will tell. 378 00:26:49,260 --> 00:26:51,178 You will not tell. 379 00:26:51,261 --> 00:26:53,513 As I love you and you love me, 380 00:26:53,597 --> 00:26:56,516 you will bind my breast and buy me a boy's wig. 381 00:27:02,521 --> 00:27:04,648 Master Plum. What business here? 382 00:27:04,732 --> 00:27:06,650 The five schilling business, Will. 383 00:27:06,733 --> 00:27:08,902 We play for the dancing. 384 00:27:10,987 --> 00:27:13,573 Hyah! Hyah, hyah! 385 00:27:27,710 --> 00:27:29,629 I seek Master Thomas Kent. 386 00:27:29,712 --> 00:27:33,257 Musicians don't eat. Sir Robert's orders. 387 00:27:33,340 --> 00:27:35,259 She's a beauty, my lord, 388 00:27:35,342 --> 00:27:39,221 as would take a king to church for the dowry of a nutmeg. 389 00:27:39,304 --> 00:27:42,724 My plantations in Virginia are not mortgaged for a nutmeg. 390 00:27:42,807 --> 00:27:45,726 I have an ancient name which will bring you preferment... 391 00:27:45,810 --> 00:27:47,728 when your grandson is a Wessex. 392 00:27:47,812 --> 00:27:49,772 - Is she fertile? - Oh, she will breed. 393 00:27:49,855 --> 00:27:53,608 - If she do not, send her back. - Is she obedient? 394 00:27:53,692 --> 00:27:55,610 As any mule in Christendom. 395 00:27:55,694 --> 00:27:58,613 But if you are the man to ride her, 396 00:27:58,696 --> 00:28:00,615 there are rubies in the saddlebag. 397 00:28:00,698 --> 00:28:03,033 I like her. 398 00:28:22,509 --> 00:28:25,095 By all the stars in heaven. 399 00:28:25,178 --> 00:28:27,472 Who is she? 400 00:28:27,555 --> 00:28:31,017 Viola De Lesseps? Dream on, Will. 401 00:29:09,134 --> 00:29:11,010 Master Shakespeare. 402 00:29:18,058 --> 00:29:19,977 My lady Viola. 403 00:29:20,060 --> 00:29:21,978 My lord. 404 00:29:22,062 --> 00:29:24,481 I have spoken with your father. 405 00:29:24,564 --> 00:29:27,483 So, my lord? I speak with him every day. 406 00:29:44,665 --> 00:29:46,417 Good sir. 407 00:29:48,002 --> 00:29:50,003 I heard you were a poet. 408 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,259 A poet of no words? 409 00:30:01,180 --> 00:30:03,349 Poet? 410 00:30:03,432 --> 00:30:07,561 I was a poet till now, but I've seen beauty that puts my poems... 411 00:30:07,644 --> 00:30:10,772 at one with the talking ravens in the Tower. 412 00:30:10,855 --> 00:30:14,066 - How do I offend, my lord? - By coveting my property. 413 00:30:14,150 --> 00:30:17,444 I cannot shed blood in her house, but I will cut your throat anon. 414 00:30:17,528 --> 00:30:19,947 Do you have a name? 415 00:30:20,030 --> 00:30:22,782 Christopher Marlowe, at your service. 416 00:30:46,554 --> 00:30:49,306 Romeo. Romeo. 417 00:30:49,389 --> 00:30:52,309 A Young Man of Verona. 418 00:30:52,392 --> 00:30:55,145 A comedy by William Shakespeare. 419 00:30:55,228 --> 00:30:58,314 - My lady! - Who is there? 420 00:30:59,398 --> 00:31:01,275 - Will Shakespeare. - Madam! 421 00:31:01,358 --> 00:31:04,778 Anon, good nurse, anon. 422 00:31:05,946 --> 00:31:09,491 - Oh, Master Shakespeare. - The same, alas. 423 00:31:09,574 --> 00:31:11,242 But why "alas"? 424 00:31:11,326 --> 00:31:13,286 - A lowly player. - Alas, indeed. 425 00:31:13,369 --> 00:31:16,080 For I thought you the highest poet of my esteem... 426 00:31:16,163 --> 00:31:18,832 and a writer of plays that capture my heart. 427 00:31:18,916 --> 00:31:21,334 - Oh, I am him too. - Madam! 428 00:31:21,418 --> 00:31:24,337 Anon! I will come again. 429 00:31:25,922 --> 00:31:29,383 Oh, I am fortune's fool. I will be punished for this. 430 00:31:31,677 --> 00:31:34,304 Oh, my lady, my love! 431 00:31:34,388 --> 00:31:37,682 If they find you here, they will kill you. 432 00:31:37,766 --> 00:31:41,269 - You can bring them with a word. - Oh, not for the world. 433 00:31:41,352 --> 00:31:44,522 - Madam! - Anon! 434 00:32:43,616 --> 00:32:45,534 Draw, if you be men! 435 00:32:45,618 --> 00:32:47,536 Gregory, remember thy swashing blow! 436 00:32:47,619 --> 00:32:51,039 Part, fools! Put up your swords. You know not what you do. 437 00:32:51,122 --> 00:32:54,042 It starts well, then it's all long-faced about some Rosaline. 438 00:32:54,125 --> 00:32:56,544 Where's the comedy, Will? Where's the dog? 439 00:32:56,627 --> 00:32:58,546 Do you think it's funny? 440 00:32:58,629 --> 00:33:01,548 I was a pirate king, now I'm a nurse. That's funny. 441 00:33:01,632 --> 00:33:04,468 We are six men short, and those we have will be overparted ranters... 442 00:33:04,551 --> 00:33:06,970 and stutterers who should be sent back to the stews. 443 00:33:07,053 --> 00:33:09,472 My Romeo's let me down. I see disaster. 444 00:33:09,556 --> 00:33:12,099 We are four acts short, if you're looking for disaster. 445 00:33:12,183 --> 00:33:14,101 - Sir! - Who are you, master? 446 00:33:14,185 --> 00:33:17,855 I'm Ethel, sir, the pirate's daughter. 447 00:33:17,938 --> 00:33:19,856 I'll be damned if you are! 448 00:33:19,940 --> 00:33:24,277 Your attention, please! 449 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,780 - Gentlemen, thank you! - You are welcome. 450 00:33:27,863 --> 00:33:30,449 - Who's that? - Nobody. He's the author. 451 00:33:30,532 --> 00:33:33,619 We are about to embark on a great voyage. 452 00:33:33,702 --> 00:33:37,122 It is customary to make a little speech on the first day. 453 00:33:37,205 --> 00:33:39,624 It does no harm. Authors like it. 454 00:33:39,707 --> 00:33:43,044 You want to know what parts you are to receive. All will be settled as we- 455 00:33:43,127 --> 00:33:45,045 I'll do it. 456 00:33:45,129 --> 00:33:47,548 Now listen to me, you dregs. 457 00:33:47,631 --> 00:33:49,549 Actors are ten a penny, 458 00:33:49,633 --> 00:33:53,470 and I, Hugh Fennyman, hold your nuts in my hand. 459 00:33:53,553 --> 00:33:55,722 Huzzah! 460 00:33:55,805 --> 00:33:59,391 The Admiral's Men are returned to the house! 461 00:33:59,475 --> 00:34:01,477 Huzzah! 462 00:34:04,896 --> 00:34:07,816 Henslowe! 463 00:34:07,899 --> 00:34:09,817 Earl! Good to see you. 464 00:34:13,070 --> 00:34:14,822 Who is this? 465 00:34:14,905 --> 00:34:17,824 Silence, you dog! 466 00:34:18,950 --> 00:34:20,785 I am Hieronimo. 467 00:34:20,869 --> 00:34:23,496 I am Tamburlaine. 468 00:34:23,580 --> 00:34:25,832 I am Faustus. 469 00:34:25,915 --> 00:34:29,835 I am Barabbas, the Jew of Malta. 470 00:34:31,086 --> 00:34:34,006 Oh, yes, Master Will. I am Henry the Sixth. 471 00:34:34,089 --> 00:34:38,259 What is the play, and what is my part? 472 00:34:38,343 --> 00:34:40,762 - Uh, one moment, sir- - Who are you? 473 00:34:41,846 --> 00:34:44,848 I'm, um- I'm the money. 474 00:34:44,932 --> 00:34:46,850 Then you may remain, 475 00:34:46,934 --> 00:34:48,852 so long as you remain silent. 476 00:34:48,935 --> 00:34:52,022 Pay attention. You will see how genius creates a legend. 477 00:34:52,105 --> 00:34:55,858 - Thank you, sir. - We are in desperate want of a Mercutio, Ned. 478 00:34:55,942 --> 00:34:58,527 A young nobleman of Verona. 479 00:34:58,611 --> 00:35:00,529 - And the title of this piece? - Mercutio. 480 00:35:00,612 --> 00:35:03,198 Is it? 481 00:35:03,281 --> 00:35:05,784 I will play him. 482 00:35:06,910 --> 00:35:09,829 Mr. Pope. Mr. Philips. Welcome. 483 00:35:09,912 --> 00:35:11,789 George Bryan. James Armitage. 484 00:35:11,872 --> 00:35:13,791 Sam, my pretty one! 485 00:35:13,874 --> 00:35:17,878 - Are you ready to fall in love again? - I am, Master Shakespeare. 486 00:35:17,961 --> 00:35:20,171 Your voice. Have they dropped? 487 00:35:20,255 --> 00:35:22,674 No! No. A touch of cold only. 488 00:35:22,757 --> 00:35:26,385 Master Henslowe, you have your actors... except Thomas Kent. 489 00:35:27,553 --> 00:35:30,014 I, uh, I saw his Tamburlaine, you know. 490 00:35:30,097 --> 00:35:32,015 - It was wonderful. - Yes, I saw it. 491 00:35:32,099 --> 00:35:34,017 Of course, such mighty writing. 492 00:35:34,101 --> 00:35:36,186 There's no one like Marlowe. 493 00:35:50,323 --> 00:35:51,908 Better fortune, boy. 494 00:35:51,991 --> 00:35:53,910 I was in a play. 495 00:35:53,993 --> 00:35:56,537 They cut my head off in Titus Andronicus. 496 00:35:56,621 --> 00:36:00,374 When I write plays, they'll be like Titus. 497 00:36:00,457 --> 00:36:01,917 You admire it. 498 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,085 I liked it when they cut heads off, 499 00:36:04,169 --> 00:36:07,088 and the daughter mutilated with knives. 500 00:36:07,172 --> 00:36:09,215 - What's your name? - John Webster. 501 00:36:09,298 --> 00:36:11,342 Here, kitty, kitty. 502 00:36:14,428 --> 00:36:18,015 Plenty of blood. 503 00:36:18,098 --> 00:36:20,016 That's the only writing. 504 00:36:21,142 --> 00:36:23,561 I have to get back. 505 00:36:23,645 --> 00:36:26,772 See, where he comes. So please you step aside. 506 00:36:26,856 --> 00:36:28,774 I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. 507 00:36:28,857 --> 00:36:32,277 I would thou wert so happy by thy stay to hear true shrift. Come, madam. 508 00:36:32,361 --> 00:36:34,279 - Cut around him for now. - What? Who? 509 00:36:34,362 --> 00:36:36,781 - Romeo. - The one who came with your letter. 510 00:36:36,865 --> 00:36:38,783 - What? - Good morrow, cousin. 511 00:36:38,866 --> 00:36:40,785 Is the day so young? 512 00:36:40,868 --> 00:36:44,038 - But new struck nine. - Ay me. Sad hours seem long. 513 00:36:44,121 --> 00:36:47,040 What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? 514 00:36:47,124 --> 00:36:49,543 Not having that which having makes them short. 515 00:36:49,626 --> 00:36:51,544 - Good. - In love? 516 00:36:51,628 --> 00:36:53,463 - Out. - Of love? 517 00:36:53,546 --> 00:36:57,466 - Out of her favor where I am in love. - Don't spend it all at once. 518 00:36:59,802 --> 00:37:01,720 Yes, sir. 519 00:37:01,803 --> 00:37:04,639 - Do you understand me? - No, sir. 520 00:37:04,723 --> 00:37:07,976 You're speaking about a baggage we never even meet. 521 00:37:08,059 --> 00:37:11,312 What will be left in his purse when he meets his Juliet? 522 00:37:11,395 --> 00:37:13,397 - Juliet? You mean Ethel. - God's teeth! 523 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,900 Am I to suffer this constant stream of interruption? 524 00:37:18,485 --> 00:37:21,738 What will he do in Act Two, when he meets the love of his life? 525 00:37:23,656 --> 00:37:27,910 I- I'm very sorry, sir. I have not seen Act Two. 526 00:37:27,993 --> 00:37:31,079 Of course you have not. I have not written it. 527 00:37:31,163 --> 00:37:33,081 Go once more. 528 00:37:33,165 --> 00:37:34,958 Will. 529 00:37:35,041 --> 00:37:37,418 Where is Mercutio? 530 00:37:37,502 --> 00:37:40,421 Locked safe in here. I'll leave the scene in your safekeeping, Ned. 531 00:37:40,504 --> 00:37:42,423 I have a sonnet to write. 532 00:37:42,506 --> 00:37:44,591 Sonnet? You mean a play! 533 00:37:48,470 --> 00:37:51,139 For Lady Viola De Lesseps, 534 00:37:51,222 --> 00:37:55,142 by the hand of Thomas Kent. 535 00:37:55,226 --> 00:37:57,978 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 536 00:37:58,062 --> 00:38:01,523 Thou art more lovely and more temperate. 537 00:38:04,276 --> 00:38:07,195 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May-" 538 00:38:07,278 --> 00:38:09,280 Two hours at prayer! 539 00:38:09,363 --> 00:38:11,782 Lady Viola is pious, my lord. 540 00:38:11,866 --> 00:38:13,784 Piety is for Sunday! 541 00:38:13,867 --> 00:38:16,787 And two hours of prayer is not piety, it is self-importance. 542 00:38:16,870 --> 00:38:19,706 It would be better that you return tomorrow, my lord. 543 00:38:19,789 --> 00:38:22,542 It would be better if you'd tell her to get off her knees and show some civility... 544 00:38:22,625 --> 00:38:24,627 to her six-day lord and master! 545 00:38:27,213 --> 00:38:29,006 Mmmph! 546 00:38:34,260 --> 00:38:36,554 My lady Viola. 547 00:38:36,638 --> 00:38:39,056 Lord Wessex. You've been waiting. 548 00:38:39,140 --> 00:38:41,058 I am aware of it. 549 00:38:42,309 --> 00:38:44,228 But it is beauty's privilege. 550 00:38:44,311 --> 00:38:46,396 You flatter, my lord. 551 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,233 No. I have spoken to the queen. 552 00:38:50,316 --> 00:38:53,569 Her Majesty's consent is requisite when a Wessex takes a wife, 553 00:38:53,653 --> 00:38:56,572 and once given, her consent is her command. 554 00:38:56,655 --> 00:38:59,074 Do you intend to marry, my lord? 555 00:38:59,158 --> 00:39:01,410 Your father should keep you better informed. 556 00:39:01,493 --> 00:39:03,912 He has bought me for you. 557 00:39:03,995 --> 00:39:08,583 He returns from his estates to see us married two weeks from Saturday. 558 00:39:08,666 --> 00:39:10,876 You are allowed to show your pleasure. 559 00:39:12,419 --> 00:39:15,339 But I do not love you, my lord. 560 00:39:15,422 --> 00:39:18,174 How your mind hops about. 561 00:39:18,258 --> 00:39:20,593 Your father was a shopkeeper. 562 00:39:20,677 --> 00:39:23,054 Your children will bear arms, and I will recover my fortune. 563 00:39:23,137 --> 00:39:25,598 That is the only matter under discussion today. 564 00:39:25,681 --> 00:39:27,600 You will like Virginia. 565 00:39:27,683 --> 00:39:30,269 - Virginia? - Oh, yes. 566 00:39:30,352 --> 00:39:33,438 My fortune lies in my plantations. The tobacco weed. 567 00:39:33,521 --> 00:39:37,066 I need 4,000 pounds to fit out a ship and put my investments to work. 568 00:39:37,150 --> 00:39:40,069 I fancy tobacco has a future. 569 00:39:40,152 --> 00:39:43,113 We will not stay there long. Three or four years. 570 00:39:43,197 --> 00:39:45,616 But why me? 571 00:39:45,699 --> 00:39:47,617 It was your eyes. 572 00:39:47,701 --> 00:39:50,078 No, your lips. 573 00:40:01,296 --> 00:40:04,215 Will you defy your father and your queen? 574 00:40:04,299 --> 00:40:06,217 The queen has consented? 575 00:40:06,301 --> 00:40:08,219 She wants to inspect you. 576 00:40:08,302 --> 00:40:10,888 At Greenwich, come Sunday. 577 00:40:10,971 --> 00:40:15,309 Be submissive, modest, grateful... 578 00:40:15,392 --> 00:40:17,310 and brief. 579 00:40:18,812 --> 00:40:21,898 I will do my duty, my lord. 580 00:40:26,485 --> 00:40:31,239 "Master Will, poet dearest to my heart, 581 00:40:31,323 --> 00:40:35,243 I beseech you banish me from yours. 582 00:40:35,326 --> 00:40:38,579 I am to marry Lord Wessex. 583 00:40:39,664 --> 00:40:42,082 A daughter's duty... 584 00:40:42,166 --> 00:40:44,585 and the queen's command. " 585 00:41:05,770 --> 00:41:09,940 Gentlemen upstage Ladies downstage 586 00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:15,529 Gentlemen upstage Ladies downstage 587 00:41:15,612 --> 00:41:18,865 Are you a lady Mr. Kent 588 00:41:18,948 --> 00:41:20,700 I'm very sorry, sir. 589 00:41:23,286 --> 00:41:26,205 We're gonna have to do it again. 590 00:41:27,539 --> 00:41:29,958 You did not like the speech? 591 00:41:30,042 --> 00:41:31,960 No, the speech is excellent. 592 00:41:32,043 --> 00:41:35,713 "Oh, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. " 593 00:41:35,797 --> 00:41:38,049 Excellent, and a good length. 594 00:41:38,132 --> 00:41:42,511 But then he disappears for the length of a bible. 595 00:41:43,679 --> 00:41:45,889 There. You have this duel. 596 00:41:45,972 --> 00:41:49,767 A skirmish of words and swords such as I never wrote, nor anyone. 597 00:41:49,851 --> 00:41:54,897 He dies with such passion and poetry as you ever heard. 598 00:41:54,980 --> 00:41:57,733 "A plague on both your houses!" 599 00:42:03,238 --> 00:42:05,156 He dies? 600 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,661 - Ohh! - Will! 601 00:42:10,744 --> 00:42:12,746 Where are my pages? 602 00:42:24,924 --> 00:42:26,925 Did you give her my letter? 603 00:42:28,177 --> 00:42:30,720 And this is for you! 604 00:42:43,649 --> 00:42:46,943 Oh, Thomas, she has cut my strings. 605 00:42:48,361 --> 00:42:50,279 I'm unmanned, 606 00:42:50,363 --> 00:42:53,449 unmended and unmade, 607 00:42:53,532 --> 00:42:55,451 like a puppet in a box. 608 00:42:55,534 --> 00:42:57,619 - Writer, is he? - Row your boat! 609 00:42:57,703 --> 00:42:59,955 She tells me to keep away. 610 00:43:00,038 --> 00:43:03,291 She is to marry Lord Wessex! What should I do? 611 00:43:03,374 --> 00:43:06,294 If you love her, you must do as she asks. 612 00:43:06,377 --> 00:43:09,296 - And break her heart and mine? - It is only yours you can know. 613 00:43:09,380 --> 00:43:11,298 She loves me, Thomas! 614 00:43:11,382 --> 00:43:13,300 - Does she say so? - No. 615 00:43:13,383 --> 00:43:16,303 And yet she does where the ink has run with tears. 616 00:43:16,386 --> 00:43:19,806 - Was she weeping when she gave you this? - Uh- 617 00:43:19,889 --> 00:43:22,642 - Her letter came to me by the nurse. - Your aunt. 618 00:43:22,725 --> 00:43:24,643 Yes, my aunt. 619 00:43:26,186 --> 00:43:28,605 But perhaps she wept a little. 620 00:43:30,899 --> 00:43:33,151 Tell me how you love her, Will. 621 00:43:33,234 --> 00:43:36,946 Like a sickness and its cure together. 622 00:43:37,029 --> 00:43:39,532 Oh, yes. 623 00:43:39,615 --> 00:43:41,992 Like rain and sun. 624 00:43:42,075 --> 00:43:44,661 Like cold and heat. 625 00:43:45,745 --> 00:43:47,580 Is your lady beautiful? 626 00:43:47,664 --> 00:43:51,250 Since I came here from the country, 627 00:43:51,334 --> 00:43:53,252 I have not seen her close. 628 00:43:53,335 --> 00:43:56,255 Tell me, is- is she beautiful? 629 00:43:56,338 --> 00:44:00,050 Thomas, if I could write with the beauty of her eyes, 630 00:44:00,133 --> 00:44:03,011 I was born to look in them and know myself. 631 00:44:04,178 --> 00:44:06,847 A- A-And her lips? 632 00:44:06,931 --> 00:44:08,849 Her lips? 633 00:44:08,933 --> 00:44:12,436 The early morning rose would whither on the branch if it could feel envy. 634 00:44:12,519 --> 00:44:15,188 And her voice, like lark's song? 635 00:44:15,272 --> 00:44:18,191 Deeper, softer. None of your twittering larks. 636 00:44:18,274 --> 00:44:21,861 I would banish nightingales from her garden before they interrupt her song. 637 00:44:21,944 --> 00:44:24,613 - Ah, she sings too? - Constantly. 638 00:44:24,697 --> 00:44:28,075 Without doubt. And plays the lute. She has a natural ear. 639 00:44:28,158 --> 00:44:30,202 And her bosom. 640 00:44:30,285 --> 00:44:32,454 Did I mention her bosom? 641 00:44:32,537 --> 00:44:34,330 What of her bosom? 642 00:44:34,414 --> 00:44:36,999 Oh, Thomas, a pair of pippins... 643 00:44:37,083 --> 00:44:40,002 as round and rare as golden apples. 644 00:44:40,085 --> 00:44:43,046 I think milady is wise to keep your love at a distance. 645 00:44:43,130 --> 00:44:46,549 For what lady could live up to it close to... 646 00:44:46,633 --> 00:44:51,012 when her eyes and lips and voice may be no more beautiful than mine. 647 00:44:51,095 --> 00:44:53,889 Besides, can a- 648 00:44:53,973 --> 00:44:56,350 can a lady of wealth and noble marriage... 649 00:44:56,433 --> 00:44:59,686 love happily with a bankside poet and player? 650 00:44:59,769 --> 00:45:02,063 Yes, by God! 651 00:45:02,147 --> 00:45:04,899 Love knows nothing of rank or riverbank. 652 00:45:04,982 --> 00:45:08,152 It will spark between a queen and the poor vagabond who plays the king. 653 00:45:08,235 --> 00:45:10,654 Their love should be minded by each, 654 00:45:10,738 --> 00:45:13,407 for love denied blights the soul we owe to God. 655 00:45:13,490 --> 00:45:16,493 So tell my lady William Shakespeare waits for her in the garden. 656 00:45:16,576 --> 00:45:18,494 But what of Lord Wessex? 657 00:45:18,578 --> 00:45:21,998 For one kiss I would defy a thousand Wessexes. 658 00:45:29,921 --> 00:45:31,923 Oh, Will. 659 00:45:33,007 --> 00:45:35,593 Thank you, my lady. 660 00:45:37,011 --> 00:45:38,929 Lady? 661 00:45:39,013 --> 00:45:41,932 Viola De Lesseps. Known her since she was this high. 662 00:45:42,015 --> 00:45:44,226 Wouldn't deceive a child. 663 00:45:46,311 --> 00:45:50,606 Strangely enough, I'm a bit of a writer meself. 664 00:45:50,690 --> 00:45:53,275 It wouldn't take you long to read it. 665 00:45:53,359 --> 00:45:56,069 I expect you'd know all the booksellers! 666 00:46:04,660 --> 00:46:06,579 Can you love a fool? 667 00:46:06,662 --> 00:46:09,456 Can you love a player? 668 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,132 Wait! 669 00:46:19,215 --> 00:46:22,968 You're still a maid, and perhaps as mistook in me as I was mistook in Thomas Kent. 670 00:46:23,052 --> 00:46:25,804 Are you the author of the plays of William Shakespeare? 671 00:46:25,888 --> 00:46:27,472 I am. 672 00:46:27,556 --> 00:46:30,475 Then kiss me again, for I am not mistook. 673 00:46:43,528 --> 00:46:46,447 I do not know how to undress a man. 674 00:46:46,531 --> 00:46:48,449 It is strange to me too. 675 00:48:02,390 --> 00:48:04,475 Go to. Go to. 676 00:48:11,356 --> 00:48:13,608 I would not have thought it. 677 00:48:14,859 --> 00:48:17,779 There is something better than a play. 678 00:48:17,862 --> 00:48:20,448 There is. 679 00:48:20,531 --> 00:48:22,950 Even your play. 680 00:48:25,035 --> 00:48:26,953 Oh? 681 00:48:28,246 --> 00:48:30,832 And that was only my first try. 682 00:48:47,347 --> 00:48:49,265 Will. 683 00:48:51,350 --> 00:48:53,769 You would not leave me. 684 00:48:53,852 --> 00:48:56,271 I must. 685 00:48:56,355 --> 00:48:58,273 Look how pale the window. 686 00:48:58,356 --> 00:49:00,275 Moonlight. 687 00:49:00,358 --> 00:49:03,236 Mmm, no. The morning rooster woke me. 688 00:49:03,319 --> 00:49:06,405 It was the owl. Come to bed. 689 00:49:08,490 --> 00:49:10,909 Oh, let Henslowe wait. 690 00:49:12,827 --> 00:49:14,746 Mr. Henslowe? 691 00:49:14,829 --> 00:49:17,248 Mmm, let him be damned for his pages. 692 00:49:17,331 --> 00:49:19,250 Oh, no, no, no, no, no. 693 00:49:19,333 --> 00:49:22,253 There is time. Mmm! It is still dark. 694 00:49:22,336 --> 00:49:25,255 - It's broad day. The rooster tells us so. - It was the owl. 695 00:49:25,339 --> 00:49:27,632 Believe me, love, it was the owl- 696 00:49:29,050 --> 00:49:31,969 You would leave us players without a scene to read today? 697 00:49:34,805 --> 00:49:37,433 My lady? 698 00:49:37,516 --> 00:49:40,268 The house is stirring. It is a new day. 699 00:49:41,353 --> 00:49:43,772 It is a new world. 700 00:49:43,855 --> 00:49:46,774 Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, 701 00:49:46,858 --> 00:49:49,485 which mannerly devotion shows in this. 702 00:49:49,568 --> 00:49:52,780 For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, 703 00:49:52,863 --> 00:49:56,283 and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. 704 00:49:56,366 --> 00:50:00,078 Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? 705 00:50:00,161 --> 00:50:02,080 Aye, pilgrim. 706 00:50:02,163 --> 00:50:04,582 Lips that they must use in prayer. 707 00:50:04,665 --> 00:50:07,835 Oh, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. 708 00:50:07,918 --> 00:50:09,836 They pray. 709 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,340 Grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. 710 00:50:13,423 --> 00:50:16,843 Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. 711 00:50:18,552 --> 00:50:20,471 It's you. 712 00:50:20,554 --> 00:50:22,973 Suffering cats! 713 00:50:23,056 --> 00:50:25,142 Then move not... 714 00:50:25,225 --> 00:50:28,269 while my prayer's effect I take. 715 00:50:32,607 --> 00:50:36,026 Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged. 716 00:50:36,110 --> 00:50:38,862 Then have my lips the sin that they have took. 717 00:50:38,946 --> 00:50:43,700 Sin from my lips? Oh, trespass sweetly urged. Give me my sin again. 718 00:50:43,783 --> 00:50:46,411 Yes, yes! Um, not quite right. 719 00:50:46,494 --> 00:50:48,496 It is more- Let me. 720 00:50:48,579 --> 00:50:51,540 Then have my lips the sin that they have took. 721 00:50:51,624 --> 00:50:55,919 Sin from my lips? Oh, trespass sweetly urged. Give me my sin again. 722 00:51:02,383 --> 00:51:04,927 - You kiss by the book. - Well, Will! 723 00:51:05,010 --> 00:51:07,096 It was lucky you were here. 724 00:51:07,179 --> 00:51:09,598 - Why do not I write the rest of your play- - Yes, yes! 725 00:51:09,681 --> 00:51:13,893 Uh, continue. Now the nurse. Where is Ralph? 726 00:51:14,185 --> 00:51:17,855 Madam, your mother craves a word with you. 727 00:51:19,648 --> 00:51:22,401 - What is her mother? - Marry, bachelor, 728 00:51:22,484 --> 00:51:25,070 her mother is the lady of the house, and a good lady... 729 00:51:25,153 --> 00:51:27,364 and a wise and virtuous. 730 00:51:27,447 --> 00:51:30,366 I nursed her daughter that you talked withal. 731 00:51:30,450 --> 00:51:33,536 I tell you, he that can lay hold of her... 732 00:51:33,619 --> 00:51:35,538 shall have the chinks. 733 00:51:35,621 --> 00:51:37,623 - Is she a Capulet? - Mmm. 734 00:51:37,706 --> 00:51:41,459 Oh, dear account! My life is my foe's debt. 735 00:51:41,543 --> 00:51:44,337 Away. Be gone. The sport is at the best. 736 00:51:44,420 --> 00:51:47,506 Aye, so I fear. The more is my unrest. 737 00:51:48,674 --> 00:51:51,927 Come hither, nurse. What is yon gentleman? 738 00:51:52,010 --> 00:51:54,388 The son and heir of old Tiberio. 739 00:51:54,471 --> 00:51:57,098 Let it be night. 740 00:51:57,182 --> 00:52:01,144 - What's he that follows here that would not dance? - I know not. 741 00:52:01,227 --> 00:52:03,104 Go ask his name. 742 00:52:04,522 --> 00:52:08,275 If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed. 743 00:52:08,358 --> 00:52:11,444 No, do not go. 744 00:52:11,528 --> 00:52:13,446 I must. I must. 745 00:52:13,530 --> 00:52:16,782 - The only son of your great enemy. - Terrible. 746 00:52:16,866 --> 00:52:18,951 Simply... terrible! 747 00:52:25,373 --> 00:52:30,294 "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? 748 00:52:30,378 --> 00:52:32,463 It is the east, 749 00:52:32,546 --> 00:52:35,174 and Juliet is the sun. 750 00:52:35,257 --> 00:52:39,803 Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon... 751 00:52:39,886 --> 00:52:42,806 who is already sick and pale with grief... 752 00:52:42,889 --> 00:52:47,435 that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. " 753 00:52:47,518 --> 00:52:50,312 - Oh, Will. - Yes, some of it's speakable. 754 00:52:50,396 --> 00:52:53,148 "It is my lady. Oh, it is my love! 755 00:52:53,231 --> 00:52:56,067 Oh, that she knew she were! 756 00:52:56,151 --> 00:52:59,737 The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars... 757 00:52:59,821 --> 00:53:02,114 as daylight doth a lamp. " 758 00:53:02,198 --> 00:53:05,326 Her eyes in heaven would through the airy region... 759 00:53:05,409 --> 00:53:07,995 stream so bright... 760 00:53:08,078 --> 00:53:12,707 that birds would sing and think it were not night. 761 00:53:12,791 --> 00:53:16,460 See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. 762 00:53:16,544 --> 00:53:19,463 Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand, 763 00:53:19,547 --> 00:53:21,799 that I might touch that cheek. 764 00:53:21,882 --> 00:53:25,010 - Ay, me. - "Oh, Romeo. 765 00:53:25,093 --> 00:53:27,137 Romeo. 766 00:53:27,220 --> 00:53:29,806 Wherefore art thou, Romeo? 767 00:53:29,889 --> 00:53:33,517 - Deny thy father and-" - Deny thy father and refuse thy name. 768 00:53:33,601 --> 00:53:36,395 Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, 769 00:53:36,478 --> 00:53:39,231 and I'll no longer be a Capulet. 770 00:53:39,314 --> 00:53:41,691 Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? 771 00:53:43,443 --> 00:53:46,195 "What man art thou that thus bescreened in night... 772 00:53:46,279 --> 00:53:48,989 so stumblest on my counsel?" 773 00:53:49,073 --> 00:53:52,284 By a name I know not how to tell thee who I am. 774 00:53:52,367 --> 00:53:57,038 My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, because it is an enemy to thee. 775 00:53:57,122 --> 00:54:00,583 Had I it written I would tear the word. 776 00:54:00,666 --> 00:54:05,004 "The orchard walls are high and hard to climb... 777 00:54:05,087 --> 00:54:08,256 and the place death, considering who thou art, 778 00:54:08,340 --> 00:54:10,925 if any of my kinsmen find thee here. 779 00:54:11,009 --> 00:54:14,053 If they do see thee, they will murder thee. " 780 00:54:14,137 --> 00:54:18,557 Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than 20 of their swords. 781 00:54:18,641 --> 00:54:23,061 Look thou but sweet, and I am proof against their enmity. 782 00:54:23,145 --> 00:54:25,438 Would not for the world they saw thee here. 783 00:54:25,522 --> 00:54:28,441 I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes. 784 00:54:28,524 --> 00:54:32,069 - And but thou love me let them find me here. - "Good night. 785 00:54:32,153 --> 00:54:34,071 Good night, 786 00:54:34,154 --> 00:54:37,032 as sweet repose and rest come to thy heart... 787 00:54:37,115 --> 00:54:39,493 as that within my breast. 788 00:54:39,576 --> 00:54:41,786 Oh, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?" 789 00:54:41,870 --> 00:54:43,788 That's my line. 790 00:54:43,871 --> 00:54:45,915 Oh. It is mine too. 791 00:54:45,998 --> 00:54:48,918 Oh, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? 792 00:54:49,001 --> 00:54:51,837 What satifaction canst thou have tonight? 793 00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,839 The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine. 794 00:54:54,923 --> 00:54:58,384 "My bounty is as boundless as the sea. 795 00:54:58,468 --> 00:55:01,095 My love is deep. 796 00:55:01,178 --> 00:55:03,722 The more I give to thee, 797 00:55:03,806 --> 00:55:05,766 the more I have, 798 00:55:05,849 --> 00:55:07,851 for both are infinite. " 799 00:55:07,934 --> 00:55:10,395 Madam? 800 00:55:10,478 --> 00:55:14,607 - I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu. - Juliet! 801 00:55:14,690 --> 00:55:19,611 - "Anon, good nurse. " - Anon, good nurse. Sweet Montague, be true. 802 00:55:19,695 --> 00:55:22,614 "Stay but a little. I will come again. " 803 00:55:22,698 --> 00:55:25,617 Stay but a little. I will come again. 804 00:55:25,700 --> 00:55:28,119 Oh, blessed, blessed night. 805 00:55:29,370 --> 00:55:31,789 "I am afeared... 806 00:55:31,872 --> 00:55:36,293 being in night, all this is but a dream. 807 00:55:36,376 --> 00:55:38,795 Too flattering sweet... 808 00:55:38,879 --> 00:55:40,797 to be substantial. " 809 00:55:43,966 --> 00:55:46,886 To cease thy strife and leave me to my grief. 810 00:55:46,969 --> 00:55:48,971 A thousand times, good night. 811 00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:51,473 A thousand times the worse to want thy light. 812 00:55:51,556 --> 00:55:55,185 I cannot move in this dress. It makes me look like a pig. 813 00:55:55,435 --> 00:55:58,438 I have no neck in this pig dress. 814 00:56:02,399 --> 00:56:06,111 - How is it? - It's all right. 815 00:56:10,031 --> 00:56:12,784 Ned, I know, I know. 816 00:56:12,867 --> 00:56:15,786 - It's good. - Oh? 817 00:56:15,870 --> 00:56:18,622 The title won't do. 818 00:56:18,706 --> 00:56:20,457 Ah. 819 00:56:20,541 --> 00:56:24,002 Romeo and Juliet. Just a suggestion. 820 00:56:25,211 --> 00:56:27,130 Thank you, Ned. 821 00:56:29,298 --> 00:56:34,470 - You are a gentleman. - And you are a Warwickshire shit-house. 822 00:56:34,553 --> 00:56:37,264 - What o'clock tomorrow shall I send to thee? - By the hour of nine. 823 00:56:37,347 --> 00:56:39,557 I shall not fail. 'Tis 20 year till then. 824 00:56:39,641 --> 00:56:41,809 I have forgot why I called thee back. 825 00:56:41,893 --> 00:56:44,604 - You mean no dog of any kind? - Shh! Silence. 826 00:56:44,687 --> 00:56:47,356 The friar marries them in secret, 827 00:56:47,439 --> 00:56:50,359 then Ned gets into a fight with one of the Capulets. 828 00:56:50,442 --> 00:56:54,446 Romeo tries to stop them and gets in Ned's way. I mean, in Mercutio's way. 829 00:56:54,529 --> 00:56:57,699 So Tybalt kills Mercutio, then Romeo kills Tybalt. 830 00:56:57,782 --> 00:57:00,076 Then the prince banishes him from Verona. 831 00:57:00,159 --> 00:57:02,453 That must be when he goes on the voyage and gets shipwrecked... 832 00:57:02,536 --> 00:57:04,455 on the island of the pirate king. 833 00:57:04,538 --> 00:57:08,416 For God's sake, cease your prattling and get out! 834 00:57:08,500 --> 00:57:10,960 Get out! 835 00:57:13,629 --> 00:57:15,548 A thousand apologies. 836 00:57:17,299 --> 00:57:20,052 Please. 837 00:57:20,135 --> 00:57:22,888 And with a silken thread plucks it back again, 838 00:57:22,971 --> 00:57:25,223 so loving-jealous of his liberty. 839 00:57:25,306 --> 00:57:30,353 - I would I were thy bird. - Sweet, so would I; yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. 840 00:57:31,437 --> 00:57:34,606 Good night. Good night. 841 00:57:34,690 --> 00:57:39,361 Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. 842 00:57:47,243 --> 00:57:50,037 Sunday. 843 00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:52,247 'Tis Sunday. 844 00:57:58,836 --> 00:58:01,797 I found something in my sleep. 845 00:58:01,881 --> 00:58:06,426 The friar who married them will take up their destinies. 846 00:58:06,510 --> 00:58:10,513 - But it will end well for love. - In heaven, perhaps. 847 00:58:10,597 --> 00:58:13,516 It is not a comedy I'm writing now. 848 00:58:15,184 --> 00:58:18,312 A broad river divides my lovers. 849 00:58:18,395 --> 00:58:21,565 Family, duty, fate. 850 00:58:23,983 --> 00:58:27,195 As unchangeable as nature. 851 00:58:27,278 --> 00:58:29,196 Yes. 852 00:58:30,156 --> 00:58:33,242 This is not life, Will. 853 00:58:33,325 --> 00:58:36,369 It is a stolen season. 854 00:58:36,453 --> 00:58:38,371 - Be patient, my lord. - Patient? 855 00:58:38,455 --> 00:58:41,332 - Do you ask Her Majesty to be patient? - My Lord, I will go- 856 00:58:41,416 --> 00:58:44,502 Sunday. Greenwich! 857 00:58:48,005 --> 00:58:49,923 Now, pay attention, nursie. 858 00:58:50,007 --> 00:58:52,509 The queen- Gloriana Regina, 859 00:58:52,592 --> 00:58:56,095 God's chosen vessel, the radiant one who shines her light on us- 860 00:58:56,179 --> 00:58:59,307 is at Greenwich today and prepared during the evening's festivities... 861 00:58:59,390 --> 00:59:02,559 to bestow her gracious favor on my choice of wife. 862 00:59:02,643 --> 00:59:05,270 And if we're late for lunch, the old boot will not forgive! 863 00:59:05,354 --> 00:59:09,524 So get you to my lady's chamber and produce her with or without her undergarments! 864 00:59:09,607 --> 00:59:11,943 You cannot! Not for the queen herself! 865 00:59:12,026 --> 00:59:15,571 What will you have me do? Marry you instead? 866 00:59:15,654 --> 00:59:18,115 To be the wife of a poor player. 867 00:59:18,198 --> 00:59:22,077 Can I wish that for Lady Viola except in my dreams? 868 00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:25,455 And yet I would if I were free to follow my desire in the harsh light of day. 869 00:59:25,538 --> 00:59:28,374 You follow your desire freely enough in the night. 870 00:59:28,457 --> 00:59:32,044 - So, if that is all, to Greenwich I go. - Then I'll go with you. 871 00:59:32,127 --> 00:59:34,880 - You cannot. Wessex will kill you. - I know how to fight. 872 00:59:34,963 --> 00:59:37,465 Stage fighting. 873 00:59:37,549 --> 00:59:39,634 Oh, Will. 874 00:59:40,802 --> 00:59:43,221 As Thomas Kent, my heart belongs to you, 875 00:59:43,304 --> 00:59:46,640 but as Viola, the river divides us, 876 00:59:46,724 --> 00:59:50,811 and I must marry Wessex a week from Saturday. 877 00:59:50,894 --> 00:59:53,813 I'll drag her down by the queen's command! 878 00:59:56,733 --> 00:59:58,734 Good morning, my Lord. 879 00:59:58,818 --> 01:00:03,864 My lady. The tide waits for no man, but I swear it would wait for you. 880 01:00:03,947 --> 01:00:07,492 Oh, here we come at last, my lord! 881 01:00:07,575 --> 01:00:10,036 Are you bringing your laundrywoman? 882 01:00:12,413 --> 01:00:15,124 Her chaperone, my lady's country cousin. 883 01:00:15,207 --> 01:00:18,752 My, but you be a handsome gallant, 884 01:00:18,835 --> 01:00:21,171 just as she said. 885 01:00:21,254 --> 01:00:23,715 You may call me Miss Wilhelmina. 886 01:00:23,798 --> 01:00:26,217 On a more fortuitous occasion, perhaps. 887 01:00:26,300 --> 01:00:29,136 Oh, my Lord, you will not shake me off. 888 01:00:29,220 --> 01:00:33,849 Aye, she never needed me more. I swear by your britches. 889 01:01:06,878 --> 01:01:08,796 - Now? - Now. 890 01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:11,883 The queen asks for you. Answer well. 891 01:01:14,802 --> 01:01:17,096 - Is there a man? - A man, my lord? 892 01:01:17,179 --> 01:01:20,765 There was a man, a poet. A theater poet, I think. 893 01:01:20,849 --> 01:01:23,726 - Does he come to the house? - A theater poet? 894 01:01:23,810 --> 01:01:27,313 An insolent penny-a-page rogue! Marlowe, he said. Christopher Marlowe. 895 01:01:27,396 --> 01:01:29,690 - Has he been to the house? - Marlowe? 896 01:01:29,773 --> 01:01:32,067 Oh, yes. He is the one. 897 01:01:32,151 --> 01:01:35,695 Lovely waistcoat. Shame about the poetry. 898 01:01:35,779 --> 01:01:38,448 That dog! 899 01:01:54,212 --> 01:01:56,255 Your Majesty. 900 01:01:57,465 --> 01:01:59,758 Stand up straight, girl. 901 01:02:03,387 --> 01:02:05,305 I've seen you. 902 01:02:05,388 --> 01:02:09,100 You are the one who comes to all the plays at Whitehall, at Richmond. 903 01:02:09,183 --> 01:02:11,769 Your Majesty. 904 01:02:11,852 --> 01:02:14,271 What do you love so much? 905 01:02:14,355 --> 01:02:16,815 - Your Majesty- - Speak up, girl! 906 01:02:16,899 --> 01:02:18,984 I know who I am. 907 01:02:19,067 --> 01:02:22,445 Do you love stories of kings and queens? 908 01:02:22,529 --> 01:02:24,447 Of feats of arms? 909 01:02:24,530 --> 01:02:27,241 Or is it courtly love? 910 01:02:27,325 --> 01:02:29,285 I love theater. 911 01:02:29,368 --> 01:02:32,329 To have stories acted for me by a company of fellows is indeed- 912 01:02:32,412 --> 01:02:36,041 They're not acted for you; they are acted for me. And? 913 01:02:37,542 --> 01:02:40,211 And I love poetry above all. 914 01:02:40,294 --> 01:02:42,213 Above Lord Wessex? 915 01:02:42,296 --> 01:02:44,840 My lord, when you cannot find your wife, 916 01:02:44,924 --> 01:02:47,342 you better look for her at the playhouse. 917 01:02:49,678 --> 01:02:52,639 Playwrights teach us nothing about love. 918 01:02:52,722 --> 01:02:56,058 They make it pretty; they make it comical; or they make it lust. 919 01:02:56,142 --> 01:02:58,060 They cannot make it true. 920 01:02:58,144 --> 01:03:00,938 Oh, but they can. 921 01:03:03,398 --> 01:03:08,486 I mean, Your Majesty, they- they do not, they have... not, 922 01:03:08,570 --> 01:03:10,863 but I believe there is one who can. 923 01:03:12,365 --> 01:03:14,992 My Lady Viola is young in the world. 924 01:03:15,075 --> 01:03:17,035 Your Majesty is wise in it. 925 01:03:17,119 --> 01:03:20,121 Nature and truth are the very enemies of playacting. I'll wager my fortune. 926 01:03:20,205 --> 01:03:23,082 I thought you were here because you had none. 927 01:03:28,963 --> 01:03:33,175 - Well, no one will take your wager, it seems. - Fifty pounds. 928 01:03:35,844 --> 01:03:37,720 Fifty pounds? 929 01:03:39,263 --> 01:03:44,184 A very worthy sum on a very worthy question. 930 01:03:44,268 --> 01:03:47,646 Can a play show us the very truth and nature of love? 931 01:03:49,481 --> 01:03:52,734 I bear witness to the wager... 932 01:03:52,817 --> 01:03:55,945 and will be the judge of it as occasion arises. 933 01:03:58,656 --> 01:04:01,366 I have seen nothing to settle it yet. 934 01:04:02,284 --> 01:04:04,869 Are there no more fireworks? 935 01:04:04,953 --> 01:04:08,873 They would be soothing after the excitements of Lady Viola's audience. 936 01:04:08,956 --> 01:04:13,169 Have her, then, but you are a lordly fool. 937 01:04:13,252 --> 01:04:17,214 She's been plucked since I saw her last, and not by you. 938 01:04:17,297 --> 01:04:20,216 It takes a woman to know it. 939 01:04:23,845 --> 01:04:25,763 Marlowe. 940 01:04:36,689 --> 01:04:38,608 Burbage? 941 01:04:38,691 --> 01:04:41,569 Huh? Who's there? 942 01:04:41,652 --> 01:04:44,321 Marlowe. 943 01:04:45,864 --> 01:04:47,908 You are playing my Dr. Faustus this afternoon. 944 01:04:47,991 --> 01:04:50,201 Don't spend yourself in sport. 945 01:04:50,285 --> 01:04:53,871 - What do you want, Kit? - My Massacre at Paris is complete. 946 01:04:53,955 --> 01:04:57,249 - What? You have the last act? - If you have the money. 947 01:04:57,333 --> 01:05:01,420 - Tomorrow. - Then tomorrow you shall have the pages. 948 01:05:01,503 --> 01:05:03,797 Oh, will you desist, madam! 949 01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:06,799 - Oh! - Twenty pounds on delivery. 950 01:05:06,841 --> 01:05:10,177 Now, what is money to men like us? 951 01:05:11,095 --> 01:05:16,016 Besides, if I need a play, I have another waiting - a comedy by Shakespeare. 952 01:05:16,099 --> 01:05:17,976 Oh, Romeo. 953 01:05:18,059 --> 01:05:21,312 - Gave it to Henslowe. - Never! 954 01:05:21,396 --> 01:05:24,398 Well, I'm to Deptford. I leave you my respects, Miss Rosaline. 955 01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,568 I gave Shakespeare two sovereigns for Romeo. 956 01:05:27,651 --> 01:05:32,072 You did, but Ned Alleyn and the Admiral's Men have the playing of it at the Rose. 957 01:05:32,155 --> 01:05:34,115 Treachery! 958 01:05:35,450 --> 01:05:37,702 Traitor and thief! 959 01:05:40,621 --> 01:05:42,873 Oh, no. 960 01:05:42,915 --> 01:05:44,958 No! 961 01:06:02,724 --> 01:06:04,809 By my head, here comes the Capulets. 962 01:06:04,893 --> 01:06:07,812 By my heel, I care not. 963 01:06:08,938 --> 01:06:11,190 Follow me close. I will speak with them. 964 01:06:11,273 --> 01:06:14,318 Gentlemen, good-den! A word with one of you. 965 01:06:14,401 --> 01:06:16,653 Are you going to do it like that? 966 01:06:16,737 --> 01:06:18,947 Positions. 967 01:06:19,030 --> 01:06:23,326 - By my head, here comes the Capulets. - By my heel, I care not. 968 01:06:23,409 --> 01:06:25,661 Follow me close. I will speak to them. 969 01:06:25,745 --> 01:06:28,664 Gentlemen, good-den! A word with one of you. 970 01:06:28,956 --> 01:06:32,167 And but one word with one of us? 971 01:06:32,250 --> 01:06:35,045 Couple it with something; make it a word and a blow. 972 01:06:35,086 --> 01:06:38,840 Where's that thieving hack that can't keep his pen in his own ink pot? 973 01:06:38,923 --> 01:06:41,050 What is this rabble? 974 01:06:43,385 --> 01:06:46,179 Draw, if you be a man! 975 01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:11,577 Wonderful. Wonderful! 976 01:07:12,453 --> 01:07:15,914 And a dog. 977 01:07:17,457 --> 01:07:19,417 No! 978 01:07:19,501 --> 01:07:22,754 Have privy, players! Please! 979 01:07:22,837 --> 01:07:25,714 Oh! Not with my props! 980 01:07:25,798 --> 01:07:27,216 Oh! 981 01:07:27,299 --> 01:07:30,218 - Will! What- - A writer's quarrel. 982 01:07:30,302 --> 01:07:32,721 Quite normal. 983 01:07:34,097 --> 01:07:36,224 Stay here. 984 01:07:47,776 --> 01:07:50,570 You are hurt. 985 01:08:03,373 --> 01:08:06,959 I dreamed last night of a shipwreck. 986 01:08:07,043 --> 01:08:10,004 - You were cast ashore in a far country. - Oh, not yet. 987 01:08:10,087 --> 01:08:12,006 Not yet. 988 01:08:12,089 --> 01:08:15,050 'Ey, we need that for the balcony scene. 989 01:08:15,133 --> 01:08:17,469 My investment! Lambert! 990 01:08:18,887 --> 01:08:21,139 Vengeance! 991 01:08:48,580 --> 01:08:50,665 A famous victory! 992 01:08:50,748 --> 01:08:54,835 Kegs and legs open, and on the house! 993 01:08:54,919 --> 01:08:57,463 Oh, what happy hour. 994 01:08:57,546 --> 01:09:00,799 - This is a tavern! - It is also a tavern. 995 01:09:00,882 --> 01:09:03,510 - I remember you. The poet! - Yes, William the Conqueror. 996 01:09:05,595 --> 01:09:08,347 One at a time. One at a time. 997 01:09:08,431 --> 01:09:12,309 Oh, he's a pretty one. Tell me your story while I tickle your fancy. 998 01:09:16,438 --> 01:09:20,191 - It's a house of ill repute. - It is, Thomas, but of good reputation. 999 01:09:20,275 --> 01:09:23,152 Come. There's no harm in a drink. 1000 01:09:23,236 --> 01:09:28,031 You are welcome to my best house. Here's to the Admiral's Men. 1001 01:09:28,115 --> 01:09:29,825 - The Admiral's Men! - The Admiral's Men! 1002 01:09:29,908 --> 01:09:31,826 The Admiral's Men! 1003 01:09:54,972 --> 01:09:58,225 Well, I- I quite liked it. 1004 01:09:58,308 --> 01:10:00,727 Master Kent, 1005 01:10:00,811 --> 01:10:03,646 you have not yet dipped your wick. 1006 01:10:05,732 --> 01:10:08,150 My "wick"? 1007 01:10:08,234 --> 01:10:12,029 Mr. Fennyman, because you love the theater, you must have a part in my play. 1008 01:10:12,112 --> 01:10:17,075 I am writing an apothecary, a small but vital role. 1009 01:10:17,158 --> 01:10:20,244 My heavens. I thank you. 1010 01:10:20,328 --> 01:10:22,622 What's the play about, then? 1011 01:10:22,705 --> 01:10:24,874 Well, there's this nurse- 1012 01:10:30,337 --> 01:10:33,089 Silence, silence, silence! 1013 01:10:33,173 --> 01:10:35,550 Master Shakespeare... 1014 01:10:35,633 --> 01:10:39,929 has asked me to play the part of the apothecary. 1015 01:10:42,139 --> 01:10:44,725 The apothecary? 1016 01:10:44,808 --> 01:10:47,852 What is this story? Where is the shipwreck? 1017 01:10:47,936 --> 01:10:50,104 How does the comedy end? 1018 01:10:50,188 --> 01:10:54,400 - By God, I wish I knew. - By God, if you do not, who does? 1019 01:10:54,483 --> 01:10:58,111 Let us have pirates, clowns and a happy ending, 1020 01:10:58,195 --> 01:11:01,448 or we shall send you back to Stratford to your wife. 1021 01:11:18,046 --> 01:11:21,299 Will! Mr. Henslowe! Gentlemen all! 1022 01:11:21,382 --> 01:11:25,177 A black day for us all! There is news from a tavern in Deptford. 1023 01:11:25,261 --> 01:11:27,679 Marlowe is dead. 1024 01:11:31,599 --> 01:11:33,935 Stabbed. 1025 01:11:34,018 --> 01:11:38,397 Stabbed to death in a tavern at Deptford. 1026 01:11:40,733 --> 01:11:43,277 What have I done? 1027 01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:46,196 He was the first man among us. 1028 01:11:46,279 --> 01:11:48,948 A great light has gone out. 1029 01:12:04,712 --> 01:12:06,756 Forgive me. 1030 01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:12,052 God forgive me. 1031 01:12:38,617 --> 01:12:41,787 ...Our Lord Jesus Christ's sake. 1032 01:12:41,870 --> 01:12:44,289 One morning in the month of May 1033 01:12:44,372 --> 01:12:47,417 From my cot I stray 1034 01:12:47,500 --> 01:12:50,169 Just at the dawning of the day 1035 01:12:50,253 --> 01:12:52,838 I met with a charming mai- 1036 01:12:54,757 --> 01:12:58,510 You look sad, my lady. Let me take you riding. 1037 01:12:58,593 --> 01:13:02,013 - It's not my riding day, my lord. - Bless me, I thought it was a horse. 1038 01:13:02,096 --> 01:13:04,724 I'm going to church. 1039 01:13:04,807 --> 01:13:08,519 Of course. I understand. It is to be expected. 1040 01:13:08,602 --> 01:13:12,022 Yes, it is to be expected... on Sunday. 1041 01:13:12,105 --> 01:13:15,400 And on a day of mourning. 1042 01:13:15,483 --> 01:13:18,611 I never met the fellow but once at your house. 1043 01:13:18,695 --> 01:13:20,696 Mourning? 1044 01:13:22,448 --> 01:13:25,200 Who is dead, my lord? 1045 01:13:25,284 --> 01:13:30,205 Oh! Dear God, I did not think it would be me to tell you. 1046 01:13:30,288 --> 01:13:34,917 Great loss to playwriting and to dancing. 1047 01:13:36,043 --> 01:13:37,962 My lady. 1048 01:13:38,045 --> 01:13:41,715 - He is dead? - Killed last night in a tavern. 1049 01:13:43,341 --> 01:13:46,094 Come then. We'll say a prayer for his soul. 1050 01:13:50,973 --> 01:13:59,356 Who can remember sorrow 1051 01:14:30,592 --> 01:14:35,680 Spare me, dear ghost. 1052 01:14:35,763 --> 01:14:38,599 Spare me, for the love of Christ. Spare me! 1053 01:14:51,861 --> 01:14:53,779 Will! 1054 01:14:55,197 --> 01:14:57,115 Oh, my love. 1055 01:14:57,199 --> 01:14:59,117 I thought you were dead. 1056 01:15:04,413 --> 01:15:07,124 It is worse. 1057 01:15:07,208 --> 01:15:09,460 I've killed a man. 1058 01:15:13,630 --> 01:15:16,466 Marlowe's touch was in my Titus Andronicus, 1059 01:15:16,549 --> 01:15:20,219 and my Henry VI was a house built on his foundations. 1060 01:15:21,345 --> 01:15:23,931 You never spoke so well of him. 1061 01:15:24,014 --> 01:15:27,142 He was not dead before. 1062 01:15:27,225 --> 01:15:31,980 I would exchange all my plays to come for all of his that will never come. 1063 01:15:33,314 --> 01:15:35,483 You lie. 1064 01:15:37,151 --> 01:15:41,321 You lie by this river as you lied in my bed. 1065 01:15:41,405 --> 01:15:43,865 My love is no lie. 1066 01:15:45,033 --> 01:15:47,577 I have a wife, yes, 1067 01:15:47,660 --> 01:15:50,913 and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. 1068 01:15:50,996 --> 01:15:54,708 You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, 1069 01:15:56,084 --> 01:15:59,170 and yet, you let me come to your bed. 1070 01:15:59,254 --> 01:16:02,507 Calf-love. 1071 01:16:02,590 --> 01:16:07,011 I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet. 1072 01:16:07,094 --> 01:16:09,847 I was the more deceived. 1073 01:16:09,930 --> 01:16:12,849 Yes, you were deceived, 1074 01:16:12,933 --> 01:16:16,311 for I did not know how much I loved you. 1075 01:16:18,938 --> 01:16:22,024 I love you, Will, 1076 01:16:22,107 --> 01:16:24,193 beyond poetry. 1077 01:16:24,276 --> 01:16:26,778 Oh, my love. 1078 01:16:26,862 --> 01:16:30,907 - You ran from me before. - When I thought you dead, I did not care... 1079 01:16:30,990 --> 01:16:33,284 about all the plays that would never come, 1080 01:16:33,367 --> 01:16:36,078 only that I would never see your face. 1081 01:16:36,162 --> 01:16:39,456 I saw our end, and it will come. 1082 01:16:39,540 --> 01:16:44,044 - You cannot marry Wessex. - If not you, why not Wessex? 1083 01:16:44,127 --> 01:16:46,713 If not Wessex, the queen will know the cause, 1084 01:16:46,796 --> 01:16:51,467 - and there will be no more Will Shakespeare. - No. No. 1085 01:16:51,550 --> 01:16:56,054 But I will go to Wessex as a widow from these vows, 1086 01:16:56,138 --> 01:16:59,057 as solemn as they are unsanctified. 1087 01:17:00,642 --> 01:17:03,895 For killing Juliet's kinsman Tybalt, 1088 01:17:03,978 --> 01:17:06,897 the one who killed Romeo's friend Mercutio, 1089 01:17:06,981 --> 01:17:08,941 Romeo is banished. 1090 01:17:09,024 --> 01:17:11,610 - But the friar who married Romeo and Juliet- - Is that me? 1091 01:17:11,693 --> 01:17:16,572 You, Edward. The friar who married them gives Juliet a potion to drink. 1092 01:17:16,656 --> 01:17:20,409 It is a secret potion. It makes us seeming dead. 1093 01:17:20,493 --> 01:17:23,454 She is placed in the tomb of the Capulets. 1094 01:17:23,537 --> 01:17:26,289 She will awake to life and love when Romeo comes to her side again. 1095 01:17:29,250 --> 01:17:32,545 I have not said all. 1096 01:17:32,628 --> 01:17:37,800 By maligned fate, the message goes astray which would tell Romeo of the friar's plan. 1097 01:17:37,883 --> 01:17:41,261 He hears only that Juliet is dead. 1098 01:17:41,344 --> 01:17:44,347 And thus he goes to the apothecary... 1099 01:17:44,431 --> 01:17:46,349 That's me. 1100 01:17:46,432 --> 01:17:48,684 and buys a deadly poison. 1101 01:17:48,768 --> 01:17:53,689 He enters the tomb to say farewell to Juliet who lies there cold as death. 1102 01:17:53,772 --> 01:17:56,108 He drinks the poison. 1103 01:17:57,567 --> 01:17:59,819 He dies by her side, 1104 01:18:01,404 --> 01:18:04,865 and then she wakes and sees him dead. 1105 01:18:04,949 --> 01:18:08,077 And so Juliet takes his dagger... 1106 01:18:10,037 --> 01:18:13,039 and then kills herself. 1107 01:18:16,542 --> 01:18:19,253 Well, that will have them rolling in the aisles. 1108 01:18:19,336 --> 01:18:22,214 Sad... and wonderful. 1109 01:18:23,382 --> 01:18:26,218 I have a blue velvet cap that'll do well. 1110 01:18:26,301 --> 01:18:29,053 I've seen just such a cap on an apothecary. 1111 01:18:29,137 --> 01:18:31,139 Just so. 1112 01:18:32,390 --> 01:18:35,476 Yes, it will serve. 1113 01:18:37,394 --> 01:18:39,688 But there's a scene missing. 1114 01:18:39,771 --> 01:18:42,649 Between marriage and death? 1115 01:18:49,071 --> 01:18:53,158 The play... all written out for you. 1116 01:18:54,701 --> 01:18:57,329 I had the clerk at Bridewell do it. 1117 01:18:57,412 --> 01:18:59,831 He has a good fist for lettering. 1118 01:19:01,999 --> 01:19:03,918 There is a new scene. 1119 01:19:10,590 --> 01:19:15,094 - Will you read in for me? - "Wilt thou be gone? It's not yet near day. 1120 01:19:15,178 --> 01:19:17,930 It was the nightingale, and not the lark, 1121 01:19:18,014 --> 01:19:20,599 that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. 1122 01:19:20,683 --> 01:19:23,769 Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. 1123 01:19:23,852 --> 01:19:26,688 Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. " 1124 01:19:26,771 --> 01:19:30,817 "It was the lark, the herald of the morn; 1125 01:19:30,900 --> 01:19:33,235 no nightingale. 1126 01:19:33,319 --> 01:19:36,238 Look, love, what envious streaks... 1127 01:19:36,322 --> 01:19:40,450 do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. 1128 01:19:40,534 --> 01:19:44,370 Night's candles are burnt out, 1129 01:19:44,454 --> 01:19:46,873 and jocund day stands tiptoe... 1130 01:19:46,956 --> 01:19:50,334 on the misty mountaintops. 1131 01:19:50,417 --> 01:19:54,880 I must be gone and live, or stay and die. " 1132 01:19:56,631 --> 01:20:00,676 "Yon light is not daylight; I know it, I. 1133 01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:03,721 It is some meteor that the sun exhales... 1134 01:20:03,804 --> 01:20:08,475 to be to thee this night a torchbearer... 1135 01:20:08,558 --> 01:20:11,770 to light thee on thy way to Mantua. 1136 01:20:13,438 --> 01:20:15,690 Therefore, stay yet. 1137 01:20:16,899 --> 01:20:19,318 Thou needst not to be gone. " 1138 01:20:19,401 --> 01:20:21,653 "Let me be ta'en, 1139 01:20:21,737 --> 01:20:24,823 let me be put to death; 1140 01:20:24,906 --> 01:20:29,244 I am content, so thou wilt have it so. 1141 01:20:29,327 --> 01:20:31,913 I have more care to stay... 1142 01:20:31,996 --> 01:20:34,373 than will to go. 1143 01:20:34,456 --> 01:20:36,834 Come, death, and welcome. 1144 01:20:36,917 --> 01:20:39,920 Juliet wills it so. " 1145 01:21:02,857 --> 01:21:05,943 You will go far, I fear. 1146 01:21:09,905 --> 01:21:12,449 I hope we work together again. 1147 01:21:15,118 --> 01:21:18,120 "Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law... 1148 01:21:18,204 --> 01:21:22,499 is death, death to any he that utters them. " 1149 01:21:22,583 --> 01:21:24,209 Then him. Then me. 1150 01:21:25,710 --> 01:21:27,795 "Put- Put this... 1151 01:21:27,879 --> 01:21:30,256 - in any liquid thing you will and-" - Hah! 1152 01:21:30,339 --> 01:21:34,551 What is it? What is it? What is it? 1153 01:21:34,635 --> 01:21:38,638 How silver sweet sound lovers' tongues by night. 1154 01:21:38,722 --> 01:21:40,640 - Like soft music- - Shakespeare! 1155 01:21:58,072 --> 01:22:00,032 Upstart inky pup! 1156 01:22:01,158 --> 01:22:04,036 I'll show you your place, which is in hell! 1157 01:22:08,457 --> 01:22:11,835 - You're on my ground now! - By God, I'll fight the lot of you! 1158 01:22:11,918 --> 01:22:13,836 I am more than enough! 1159 01:22:21,468 --> 01:22:23,678 Move! 1160 01:23:45,084 --> 01:23:47,253 Absent friends. 1161 01:23:48,671 --> 01:23:51,632 This is the murderer of Kit Marlowe! 1162 01:23:53,008 --> 01:23:54,926 Will? 1163 01:23:55,010 --> 01:23:58,262 I rejoiced in his death because I thought it was yours! That is all I know of Marlowe! 1164 01:23:58,346 --> 01:24:01,932 Will? Uh, it's true. 1165 01:24:02,016 --> 01:24:04,810 It was a... tavern brawl. 1166 01:24:04,893 --> 01:24:09,856 Marlowe attacked and got his own knife in the eye. 1167 01:24:09,939 --> 01:24:12,150 A quarrel about the bill. 1168 01:24:12,233 --> 01:24:15,486 The bill? Oh, vanity, vanity! 1169 01:24:15,569 --> 01:24:17,947 Not the billing, the bill! 1170 01:24:21,658 --> 01:24:23,952 Oh, God. 1171 01:24:24,035 --> 01:24:26,538 - I am free of it. - Where is she? 1172 01:24:27,372 --> 01:24:29,624 Close it. 1173 01:24:29,707 --> 01:24:34,169 - My Lord Wessex. - The Rose harbors the ass that shits on my name! 1174 01:24:34,253 --> 01:24:36,463 Take it down stone by stone. 1175 01:24:36,546 --> 01:24:40,258 I want it plowed into the ground and sown with quicklime! 1176 01:24:40,341 --> 01:24:42,218 Mr. Tilney, what is this? 1177 01:24:42,302 --> 01:24:44,720 Sedition and indecency. 1178 01:24:44,804 --> 01:24:47,514 Master of the Revels, sir. She's over here. 1179 01:24:47,598 --> 01:24:50,225 - Where, boy? - There. 1180 01:24:50,309 --> 01:24:52,477 I saw her bubbies. 1181 01:24:52,561 --> 01:24:56,940 So, a woman on the stage! 1182 01:24:57,023 --> 01:25:01,152 A woman! I say this theater is closed! 1183 01:25:01,235 --> 01:25:02,695 Why, sir? 1184 01:25:02,778 --> 01:25:06,907 For lewdness and unshamedfacedness! 1185 01:25:06,990 --> 01:25:11,869 And for displaying a female on the public stage! 1186 01:25:26,966 --> 01:25:29,010 Not him, her! 1187 01:25:32,346 --> 01:25:34,014 That's who I meant. 1188 01:25:36,683 --> 01:25:40,186 - He's a woman. - This theater is closed. 1189 01:25:42,105 --> 01:25:45,524 Notice will be posted! 1190 01:25:45,608 --> 01:25:48,569 Ned, I swear, I knew nothing of this. 1191 01:25:48,652 --> 01:25:51,530 - Nobody knew. - He did. 1192 01:25:51,613 --> 01:25:54,616 I saw him kissing her bubbies. 1193 01:25:57,076 --> 01:26:00,204 It is over. 1194 01:26:00,287 --> 01:26:03,040 I'm sorry, Mr. Henslowe. 1195 01:26:17,469 --> 01:26:20,389 I wanted to be an actor. 1196 01:26:20,472 --> 01:26:22,933 I'm so sorry, Will. 1197 01:26:28,980 --> 01:26:32,066 You were... w-w- 1198 01:26:33,317 --> 01:26:35,569 w- wonderful. 1199 01:26:37,154 --> 01:26:39,406 Thank you. 1200 01:26:47,996 --> 01:26:52,250 "Let me put this in any liquid thing you will and-" 1201 01:26:58,673 --> 01:27:01,258 Everything all right? 1202 01:27:38,708 --> 01:27:41,919 I would've been good. 1203 01:27:42,003 --> 01:27:45,089 - I would've been great. - So would I. 1204 01:27:45,172 --> 01:27:47,591 We both would. 1205 01:28:09,861 --> 01:28:12,321 Lambert, kill him. 1206 01:28:13,656 --> 01:28:15,908 That can wait. 1207 01:28:19,578 --> 01:28:24,791 The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast. 1208 01:28:26,417 --> 01:28:28,544 But my father, James Burbage, 1209 01:28:28,627 --> 01:28:33,090 had the first license to make a company of players from Her Majesty, 1210 01:28:33,173 --> 01:28:37,886 and he drew from poets the literature of the age. 1211 01:28:37,969 --> 01:28:41,472 We must show them that we are men of parts. 1212 01:28:41,556 --> 01:28:43,557 Will Shakespeare has a play. 1213 01:28:45,059 --> 01:28:49,521 I have a theater. The curtain is yours. 1214 01:29:22,467 --> 01:29:26,345 Will! We'll be needing a Romeo. 1215 01:29:33,143 --> 01:29:35,270 Oranges! Sweet oranges! 1216 01:30:03,045 --> 01:30:07,257 My ship is moored at bankside, bound for Virginia on the afternoon tide. 1217 01:30:07,340 --> 01:30:09,425 Please do not weep, Lady De Lesseps. 1218 01:30:09,509 --> 01:30:11,427 You are gaining a colony. 1219 01:30:11,510 --> 01:30:14,346 And you, my lord, are gaining 5,000 pounds... 1220 01:30:14,430 --> 01:30:16,932 by these drafts in my hand. 1221 01:30:17,015 --> 01:30:19,768 Would you oblige me with 50 or so in gold... 1222 01:30:19,851 --> 01:30:22,937 just to settle my accounts at the dockside? 1223 01:30:24,230 --> 01:30:27,108 Ah, the bride! 1224 01:30:28,359 --> 01:30:31,278 Good morning, my lord. 1225 01:30:31,361 --> 01:30:35,323 I see you are... open for business, so let's to church. 1226 01:30:40,536 --> 01:30:42,455 Be gone! 1227 01:30:42,538 --> 01:30:44,665 Hup, hup, hup! 1228 01:31:40,840 --> 01:31:42,758 Oh, my lord! 1229 01:31:42,842 --> 01:31:45,427 - Be good to her, my lord. - I will. 1230 01:31:45,511 --> 01:31:47,596 Oh, God bless you! 1231 01:31:47,679 --> 01:31:50,515 Thank you. Uh, let go. There's a good nurse. 1232 01:31:50,598 --> 01:31:52,559 The tide will not wait! 1233 01:31:52,642 --> 01:31:56,520 Farewell! You'll all be welcome in Virginia! 1234 01:32:23,044 --> 01:32:27,715 Candy apples! 1235 01:32:27,798 --> 01:32:31,343 Buy my apples! 1236 01:32:35,847 --> 01:32:38,057 Thank you, sir. Apples! 1237 01:32:45,564 --> 01:32:48,942 Is this, uh- Is this all right? 1238 01:32:49,025 --> 01:32:50,944 Yeah. 1239 01:33:06,249 --> 01:33:10,586 Licentiousness is made a show! Vice is made a show! 1240 01:33:10,670 --> 01:33:15,215 Vanity and pride likewise made a show! 1241 01:33:15,299 --> 01:33:20,261 This is the very business of show! 1242 01:33:29,395 --> 01:33:33,940 T- T- T-Two- 1243 01:33:34,024 --> 01:33:36,651 T- T-T-T- T- T- 1244 01:33:36,734 --> 01:33:40,404 T- T-T-Two households- 1245 01:33:40,488 --> 01:33:43,449 - We're lost. - No, it will turn out well. 1246 01:33:43,532 --> 01:33:46,993 - How will it? - I don't know. It's a mystery. 1247 01:33:49,496 --> 01:33:53,041 T- T- T- T-T- 1248 01:33:53,124 --> 01:33:55,459 T- T- 1249 01:34:46,755 --> 01:34:49,299 Two households, 1250 01:34:49,382 --> 01:34:52,510 both alike in dignity, 1251 01:34:52,593 --> 01:34:55,346 in fair Verona, 1252 01:34:55,429 --> 01:34:58,015 where we lay our scene. 1253 01:34:58,098 --> 01:35:01,143 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, 1254 01:35:01,226 --> 01:35:04,604 where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 1255 01:35:04,687 --> 01:35:07,690 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes... 1256 01:35:07,774 --> 01:35:10,901 a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life... 1257 01:35:10,985 --> 01:35:13,737 whose misadventured, piteous overthrows... 1258 01:35:13,821 --> 01:35:17,282 doth with their death bury their parents' strife. 1259 01:35:20,451 --> 01:35:23,538 ...the which of you with patient ears attend, 1260 01:35:23,621 --> 01:35:28,375 what here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. 1261 01:35:34,714 --> 01:35:36,716 - Wonderful. - Was it... 1262 01:35:37,842 --> 01:35:39,885 good? 1263 01:35:42,638 --> 01:35:45,807 Gregory, on my word we'll not carry coals. 1264 01:35:45,891 --> 01:35:48,935 No, for then we should be colliers. 1265 01:35:49,018 --> 01:35:51,521 I mean, and we be in choler we'll draw. 1266 01:35:51,604 --> 01:35:54,690 - Master Shakespeare. - Luck be with you, Sam. Sam! 1267 01:35:54,774 --> 01:35:57,234 It's not my fault. I could do it yesterday. 1268 01:35:57,318 --> 01:36:00,487 Do me a speech. Do me a line. 1269 01:36:00,570 --> 01:36:04,407 "Parting is such sweet sorrow. " 1270 01:36:04,491 --> 01:36:07,743 - Another little problem. - What do we do now? 1271 01:36:07,827 --> 01:36:11,747 - The show must- You know. - Go on! 1272 01:36:11,830 --> 01:36:15,250 Juliet does not come on for 20 pages. It will be all right. 1273 01:36:15,334 --> 01:36:17,752 - How will it? - I don't know. It's a mystery. 1274 01:36:17,836 --> 01:36:20,129 - Fear me not. - No, marry, I fear thee! 1275 01:36:22,548 --> 01:36:25,426 - Let them begin. - I will frown as I pass by. 1276 01:36:25,509 --> 01:36:29,304 - Let them take it as they list! - Nay, as they dare. 1277 01:36:29,388 --> 01:36:33,433 I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it. 1278 01:36:33,516 --> 01:36:36,436 Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? 1279 01:36:36,519 --> 01:36:39,814 - I do bite my thumb, sir. - Excuse me. Thank you. 1280 01:36:39,897 --> 01:36:43,525 - Thank you. Excuse me. - Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? 1281 01:36:43,609 --> 01:36:45,527 - Can we talk? - Shh! 1282 01:36:45,610 --> 01:36:48,446 - We have no Juliet. - No Juliet? 1283 01:36:48,530 --> 01:36:51,657 - No Juliet? - It'll be all right, madam. 1284 01:36:51,741 --> 01:36:54,827 - What happened to Sam? - Who are you? - Thomas Kent. 1285 01:36:54,910 --> 01:36:57,496 Do you know it? 1286 01:36:57,579 --> 01:37:00,707 - I serve as good a man as you. - Every word. 1287 01:37:04,544 --> 01:37:07,171 Hyah! Yah! 1288 01:37:10,966 --> 01:37:13,969 I'll go along, no such sight to be shown, 1289 01:37:14,052 --> 01:37:17,180 but to rejoice in splendor of mine own. 1290 01:37:17,264 --> 01:37:19,557 Nurse! 1291 01:37:21,934 --> 01:37:25,187 Where's my daughter? Call her forth to me. 1292 01:37:25,271 --> 01:37:28,482 Now, by my maidenhead at 12 years old, 1293 01:37:28,565 --> 01:37:30,484 I bade her come. 1294 01:37:30,567 --> 01:37:32,652 How now, who calls? 1295 01:37:32,736 --> 01:37:35,488 What, ladybird! 1296 01:37:35,571 --> 01:37:37,323 God forbid! Where's this girl? 1297 01:37:37,406 --> 01:37:40,034 What, lamb! 1298 01:37:40,117 --> 01:37:42,327 What, ladybird! 1299 01:37:43,412 --> 01:37:45,831 What, Juliet! 1300 01:37:46,957 --> 01:37:50,335 How now, who calls? 1301 01:37:53,296 --> 01:37:57,883 - We'll all be put in the Clink. - See you in jail. 1302 01:38:01,011 --> 01:38:04,180 Your mother- Your mother. 1303 01:38:04,264 --> 01:38:07,558 Madam, I am here. What is your will? 1304 01:38:07,642 --> 01:38:09,685 This is the matter. 1305 01:38:09,768 --> 01:38:12,187 Nurse, give leave a while. We must talk in secret. 1306 01:38:12,271 --> 01:38:17,025 Nurse, come back again. I have remembered me; thou's hear our counsel. 1307 01:38:17,108 --> 01:38:20,445 Thou knowest my daughter's of a pretty age. 1308 01:38:20,528 --> 01:38:24,031 - Faith, I know her age unto an hour. - She's not 14. 1309 01:38:24,115 --> 01:38:29,619 Oh, I'll lay 14 of my teeth. And yet my teen be it spoken, 1310 01:38:29,703 --> 01:38:32,455 I have but four- 1311 01:38:54,642 --> 01:38:56,685 Tell me, daughter Juliet, 1312 01:38:56,769 --> 01:39:01,356 how stands your dispositions to be married? 1313 01:39:01,439 --> 01:39:04,567 It is an honor that I dream not of. 1314 01:39:08,863 --> 01:39:11,740 Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio! 1315 01:39:19,497 --> 01:39:22,708 I- I'm sped. 1316 01:39:22,792 --> 01:39:25,586 Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. 1317 01:39:25,669 --> 01:39:28,046 Ask for me tomorrow, 1318 01:39:28,130 --> 01:39:30,966 you shall find me a grave man. 1319 01:39:38,180 --> 01:39:41,433 Yes! 1320 01:39:46,688 --> 01:39:48,606 Yah! 1321 01:39:48,690 --> 01:39:51,234 "Such mortal drugs I have, 1322 01:39:51,317 --> 01:39:55,988 but Mantua's law is death to any he that utters them. " 1323 01:39:56,071 --> 01:39:58,615 Then him. Then me. 1324 01:40:07,081 --> 01:40:09,166 Romeo, away, be gone! 1325 01:40:09,250 --> 01:40:13,670 The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. Stand not amazed! 1326 01:40:13,754 --> 01:40:18,007 The prince will doom thee death if thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away! 1327 01:40:19,217 --> 01:40:21,552 Oh, I am Fortune's fool! 1328 01:40:21,636 --> 01:40:23,554 Why dost thou stay? 1329 01:40:23,637 --> 01:40:25,639 Which way ran he that killed Mercutio? 1330 01:40:25,723 --> 01:40:27,933 That murderer, which way ran he? 1331 01:40:28,016 --> 01:40:30,810 - There lies that Tybalt. - Up, sir. Go with me. 1332 01:40:30,894 --> 01:40:32,937 I charge thee in the Prince's name obey. 1333 01:40:33,021 --> 01:40:35,731 Where are the vile beginners of this fray? 1334 01:40:35,815 --> 01:40:38,067 "Oh, I am Fortune's fool. " 1335 01:40:40,861 --> 01:40:42,821 You are married? 1336 01:40:46,449 --> 01:40:51,495 "If you be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed. " 1337 01:41:07,259 --> 01:41:09,470 Art thou gone so, 1338 01:41:12,097 --> 01:41:14,224 love, lord, 1339 01:41:14,307 --> 01:41:16,518 aye, husband, friend? 1340 01:41:16,601 --> 01:41:21,355 I must hear from thee every day in the hour, 1341 01:41:21,439 --> 01:41:24,358 for in a minute there are many days. 1342 01:41:24,441 --> 01:41:28,028 Oh, by this count I shall be much in years ere again... 1343 01:41:28,111 --> 01:41:30,530 I behold my Romeo. 1344 01:41:30,613 --> 01:41:32,532 Farewell. 1345 01:41:34,033 --> 01:41:36,952 Oh, think'st thou we shall ever meet again? 1346 01:41:38,996 --> 01:41:42,040 Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, 1347 01:41:42,124 --> 01:41:45,585 as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. 1348 01:41:45,668 --> 01:41:49,046 Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. 1349 01:41:51,298 --> 01:41:53,509 Then trust me, love, 1350 01:41:53,592 --> 01:41:55,928 in my eyes, so do you. 1351 01:41:56,011 --> 01:41:59,764 Dry sorrow drinks our blood. 1352 01:41:59,848 --> 01:42:01,766 Adieu. 1353 01:42:03,267 --> 01:42:05,895 Adieu. 1354 01:42:05,978 --> 01:42:08,731 Take thou this vial, being then in bed, 1355 01:42:08,814 --> 01:42:11,900 and this distilling liquor drink thou off. 1356 01:42:11,984 --> 01:42:15,945 No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest. 1357 01:42:16,029 --> 01:42:18,990 And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death... 1358 01:42:19,073 --> 01:42:22,284 thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 1359 01:42:22,368 --> 01:42:25,996 and then awake as from a pleasant sleep. 1360 01:42:26,079 --> 01:42:28,165 What ho! Apothecary! 1361 01:42:31,668 --> 01:42:35,296 Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor. 1362 01:42:35,379 --> 01:42:38,299 Hold, there is 40 ducats. 1363 01:42:38,382 --> 01:42:42,135 - Let me have a dram of poison- - Such mortal drugs I have, 1364 01:42:42,219 --> 01:42:46,264 but Mantua's law is death to any he that utters them. 1365 01:42:46,347 --> 01:42:49,850 - Art thou so- - My poverty, but not my will, consents. 1366 01:42:55,689 --> 01:42:58,608 I pay thy poverty and not thy will. 1367 01:43:02,612 --> 01:43:04,780 Eyes, look your last. 1368 01:43:04,864 --> 01:43:07,616 Arms, take your last embrace. 1369 01:43:07,700 --> 01:43:10,035 And, lips, 1370 01:43:10,118 --> 01:43:13,580 oh, you, the doors of breath, 1371 01:43:13,663 --> 01:43:16,082 seal with a righteous kiss... 1372 01:43:18,042 --> 01:43:20,294 the dateless bargain... 1373 01:43:20,378 --> 01:43:22,630 to engrossing death. 1374 01:43:23,922 --> 01:43:26,758 Come, bitter conduct. 1375 01:43:26,842 --> 01:43:30,136 Come, unsavory guide. 1376 01:43:30,220 --> 01:43:33,931 Thou, desperate pilot, now at once... 1377 01:43:34,015 --> 01:43:38,811 run on the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark. 1378 01:43:38,894 --> 01:43:41,313 Here's to my love! 1379 01:43:49,237 --> 01:43:52,406 Oh... true apothecary! 1380 01:43:56,410 --> 01:43:58,662 Thy drugs are quick. 1381 01:44:03,458 --> 01:44:06,043 Thus with a kiss... 1382 01:44:08,754 --> 01:44:10,839 I die. 1383 01:44:28,563 --> 01:44:30,648 Where is my lord? 1384 01:44:32,400 --> 01:44:36,529 I do remember well where I should be, and there I am. Where is my Romeo? 1385 01:44:36,612 --> 01:44:37,905 Dead! 1386 01:44:51,292 --> 01:44:53,335 What's this? 1387 01:44:53,419 --> 01:44:57,130 A cup, closed in my true love's hand? 1388 01:44:57,214 --> 01:44:59,716 Poison, I see, 1389 01:44:59,799 --> 01:45:02,510 hath been his timeless end. 1390 01:45:08,182 --> 01:45:10,726 Oh, happy dagger, 1391 01:45:10,809 --> 01:45:12,769 this is thy sheath. 1392 01:45:15,730 --> 01:45:18,065 There rest... 1393 01:45:19,525 --> 01:45:21,777 and let me die. 1394 01:45:28,658 --> 01:45:32,245 A glooming peace this morning with it brings; 1395 01:45:32,328 --> 01:45:36,749 the sun for sorrow will not show his head. 1396 01:45:36,832 --> 01:45:41,837 Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. 1397 01:45:41,920 --> 01:45:44,172 Some shall be pardoned, 1398 01:45:44,255 --> 01:45:47,258 and some punished; 1399 01:45:47,341 --> 01:45:51,470 for never was a story of more woe... 1400 01:45:51,553 --> 01:45:55,182 than this of Juliet... 1401 01:45:55,265 --> 01:45:57,517 and her Romeo. 1402 01:46:24,625 --> 01:46:27,502 Bravo! 1403 01:46:31,214 --> 01:46:33,215 - Yea! Yea! - Yea! 1404 01:47:19,590 --> 01:47:22,301 - Bravo! - Yea! Bravo! 1405 01:47:36,772 --> 01:47:41,192 - God save the queen! - I arrest you in the name of Queen Elizabeth! 1406 01:47:41,276 --> 01:47:45,279 Arrest who, Mr. Tilney? 1407 01:47:45,363 --> 01:47:47,114 Everyone! 1408 01:47:47,198 --> 01:47:50,534 Admiral's Men, the Chamberlain's Men... 1409 01:47:50,618 --> 01:47:54,955 and every one of you ne'er-do-wells that stand in contempt... 1410 01:47:55,038 --> 01:47:58,416 of the authority vested in me by Her Majesty! 1411 01:47:58,500 --> 01:48:02,545 Contempt? You closed the Rose. I have not opened it. 1412 01:48:02,628 --> 01:48:05,130 That woman is a woman! 1413 01:48:05,214 --> 01:48:07,299 What? 1414 01:48:07,382 --> 01:48:10,594 A woman? You mean that goat? 1415 01:48:10,677 --> 01:48:16,098 I'll see you all in Clink, in the name of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth! 1416 01:48:16,182 --> 01:48:19,518 Mr. Tilney! 1417 01:48:24,731 --> 01:48:28,484 Have a care with my name. You will wear it out. 1418 01:48:36,408 --> 01:48:39,119 The queen of England does not attend... 1419 01:48:39,202 --> 01:48:41,246 exhibitions of public lewdness. 1420 01:48:41,329 --> 01:48:44,332 So something is out of joint. 1421 01:48:46,250 --> 01:48:49,920 Come here, Master Kent. Let me look at you. 1422 01:49:04,725 --> 01:49:07,644 Yes, the illusion is remarkable. 1423 01:49:07,728 --> 01:49:10,438 And your error, Mr. Tilney, is easily forgiven. 1424 01:49:11,773 --> 01:49:15,776 But I know something of a woman in a man's profession. 1425 01:49:15,860 --> 01:49:18,821 Yes, by God, I do know about that. 1426 01:49:20,572 --> 01:49:23,492 That is enough from you, Master Kent. 1427 01:49:28,329 --> 01:49:30,581 If only Lord Wessex were here. 1428 01:49:30,665 --> 01:49:32,708 He is, ma'am. 1429 01:49:35,627 --> 01:49:38,839 Y- Your Majesty. 1430 01:49:40,090 --> 01:49:43,092 There was a wager I remember... 1431 01:49:43,176 --> 01:49:48,013 as to whether a play could show the very truth and nature of love. 1432 01:49:48,097 --> 01:49:50,682 I think you lost it today. 1433 01:49:55,353 --> 01:49:59,273 You are an eager boy. Did you like the play? 1434 01:49:59,357 --> 01:50:02,276 I liked it when she stabbed herself, Your Majesty. 1435 01:50:08,949 --> 01:50:11,367 Master Shakespeare. 1436 01:50:13,953 --> 01:50:16,956 Next time you come to Greenwich, come as yourself, 1437 01:50:17,039 --> 01:50:20,167 and we will speak some more. 1438 01:50:37,641 --> 01:50:39,893 Your Majesty. 1439 01:50:41,311 --> 01:50:43,271 Why, Lord Wessex. 1440 01:50:43,354 --> 01:50:45,898 Lost your wife so soon? 1441 01:50:45,982 --> 01:50:48,734 Indeed I am a bride short, 1442 01:50:48,817 --> 01:50:53,113 and my ship sails for the new world on the evening tide. 1443 01:50:53,196 --> 01:50:55,782 How is this to end? 1444 01:50:55,865 --> 01:50:58,618 As stories must when love's denied- 1445 01:50:58,701 --> 01:51:01,329 with tears and a journey. 1446 01:51:01,370 --> 01:51:03,831 Those whom God has joined in marriage... 1447 01:51:03,914 --> 01:51:07,376 not even I can put asunder. 1448 01:51:07,459 --> 01:51:10,170 Master Kent. 1449 01:51:15,883 --> 01:51:19,887 Lord Wessex, as I foretold, has lost his wife in the playhouse. 1450 01:51:21,847 --> 01:51:25,642 Go make your farewell and send her out. 1451 01:51:25,725 --> 01:51:28,144 It's time to settle accounts. 1452 01:51:31,355 --> 01:51:34,358 - How much was that wager? - Fifty shillings. 1453 01:51:35,692 --> 01:51:38,236 Pounds. 1454 01:51:38,320 --> 01:51:42,782 Give it to Master Kent. He will see it rightfully home. 1455 01:51:50,372 --> 01:51:54,334 Tell Master Shakespeare something more cheerful next time... 1456 01:51:54,417 --> 01:51:57,253 for Twelfth Night. 1457 01:52:13,184 --> 01:52:17,855 Too late. 1458 01:52:26,613 --> 01:52:28,656 My Lady Wessex. 1459 01:52:43,836 --> 01:52:46,881 A hired player no longer. 1460 01:52:46,964 --> 01:52:49,591 Fifty pounds, Will, 1461 01:52:49,675 --> 01:52:52,177 for the poet of true love. 1462 01:52:53,303 --> 01:52:55,221 I'm done with theater. 1463 01:52:57,015 --> 01:52:59,558 The playhouse is for dreamers. 1464 01:52:59,642 --> 01:53:02,144 Look what the dream brought us. 1465 01:53:03,270 --> 01:53:05,897 It was we ourselves did that. 1466 01:53:07,274 --> 01:53:11,527 And for my life to come, I would not have it otherwise. 1467 01:53:11,611 --> 01:53:15,781 I have hurt you, and I'm sorry for it. 1468 01:53:15,865 --> 01:53:19,910 If my hurt is to be that you write no more, 1469 01:53:19,993 --> 01:53:22,412 then I shall be the sorrier. 1470 01:53:27,959 --> 01:53:30,544 The queen commands a comedy, Will, 1471 01:53:30,628 --> 01:53:32,588 for Twelfth Night. 1472 01:53:32,671 --> 01:53:35,757 A comedy. 1473 01:53:35,841 --> 01:53:37,842 What would my hero be? 1474 01:53:37,926 --> 01:53:41,387 The saddest wretch in all the kingdom, sick with love? 1475 01:53:43,598 --> 01:53:47,101 It's a beginning. 1476 01:53:47,184 --> 01:53:51,271 Let him be a duke, and your heroine- 1477 01:53:51,354 --> 01:53:54,691 Sold in marriage and halfway to America. 1478 01:53:56,526 --> 01:54:00,738 At sea, then. A voyage to a new world. 1479 01:54:00,821 --> 01:54:03,699 A storm. All are lost. 1480 01:54:03,782 --> 01:54:07,244 She lands... on a... 1481 01:54:07,327 --> 01:54:10,330 vast and empty shore. 1482 01:54:11,789 --> 01:54:13,833 She's brought to the duke- 1483 01:54:15,251 --> 01:54:18,295 - Orsino. - Orsino? 1484 01:54:19,421 --> 01:54:21,339 Good name. 1485 01:54:21,423 --> 01:54:25,760 But fearful of her virtue, she comes to him dressed as a boy. 1486 01:54:25,843 --> 01:54:29,722 And thus is unable to declare her love. 1487 01:54:31,932 --> 01:54:34,142 But all ends well. 1488 01:54:34,226 --> 01:54:36,436 How does it? 1489 01:54:36,520 --> 01:54:38,646 I don't know. 1490 01:54:40,231 --> 01:54:43,025 It's a mystery. 1491 01:54:49,239 --> 01:54:51,908 You will never age for me, 1492 01:54:51,992 --> 01:54:53,910 nor fade, 1493 01:54:53,993 --> 01:54:56,245 nor die. 1494 01:54:56,329 --> 01:54:58,831 Nor you for me. 1495 01:55:00,166 --> 01:55:02,459 Good-bye, my love. 1496 01:55:04,211 --> 01:55:06,588 A thousand times good-bye. 1497 01:55:11,092 --> 01:55:13,010 Write me well. 1498 01:55:45,748 --> 01:55:49,376 My story starts at sea, 1499 01:55:49,459 --> 01:55:52,712 a perilous voyage to an unknown land. 1500 01:55:54,088 --> 01:55:57,175 A shipwreck. 1501 01:55:59,051 --> 01:56:02,846 The wild waters roar and heave. 1502 01:56:04,056 --> 01:56:07,309 The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, 1503 01:56:10,061 --> 01:56:13,939 and all the helpless souls within her... 1504 01:56:14,023 --> 01:56:16,317 drowned. 1505 01:56:18,986 --> 01:56:22,280 All save one: 1506 01:56:22,364 --> 01:56:24,532 a lady... 1507 01:56:25,908 --> 01:56:30,162 whose soul is greater than the ocean, 1508 01:56:30,246 --> 01:56:34,499 and her spirit, stronger than the sea's embrace. 1509 01:56:36,835 --> 01:56:39,963 Not for her a watery end, 1510 01:56:41,506 --> 01:56:45,593 but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. 1511 01:56:49,721 --> 01:56:52,265 It will be a love story, 1512 01:56:56,394 --> 01:57:00,564 for she will be my heroine for all time. 1513 01:57:03,400 --> 01:57:06,945 And her name will be Viola.