Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Shakespeare in Love”

A 5 part series on the 1999 Academy Award winning screenplay.

Screenplay by Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard

IMDb plot summary: A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Links to the GITS week-long discussion and analysis:

General Comments
Structure
Characters
Themes
Dialogue

Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.

Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.

For all of the other screenplays and commentary in the GITS Script Reading & Analysis series, go here.

For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.

For links to over 100 free and legal script downloads, go here.