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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:54,657 --> 00:01:57,827 Henslowe, do you know what happens to a man 2 00:01:57,911 --> 00:01:59,746 who doesn't pay his debts? 3 00:01:59,829 --> 00:02:02,749 His boots catch fire! 4 00:02:05,126 --> 00:02:09,297 Why do you howl when it is I who am bitten? 5 00:02:09,380 --> 00:02:11,925 - What am I, Mr Lambert? - Bitten, Mr Fennyman. 6 00:02:12,008 --> 00:02:13,635 How badly bitten, Mr Frees? 7 00:02:13,718 --> 00:02:16,971 Twelve pounds, one shilling and four pence, Mr Fennyman, including interest. 8 00:02:17,055 --> 00:02:19,474 - I can pay you! - When? 9 00:02:19,557 --> 00:02:22,560 Two weeks! Three weeks at the most! For pity's sake! 10 00:02:22,644 --> 00:02:24,771 Take them out. 11 00:02:24,854 --> 00:02:25,939 Where will you find... 12 00:02:26,022 --> 00:02:28,358 Sixteen pounds, five shillings and nine pence. 13 00:02:28,441 --> 00:02:30,568 Including interest, in three weeks? 14 00:02:30,652 --> 00:02:33,696 - I have a wonderful new play. - Put them back in. 15 00:02:33,780 --> 00:02:35,573 - It's a comedy! - Cut off his nose. 16 00:02:36,115 --> 00:02:38,117 It's a new comedy by William Shakespeare. 17 00:02:40,328 --> 00:02:42,205 - And his ears. - And a share! 18 00:02:42,580 --> 00:02:44,207 We will be partners, Mr Fennyman! 19 00:02:46,584 --> 00:02:47,919 Partners? 20 00:02:53,007 --> 00:02:54,342 It's a crowd-tickler. 21 00:02:54,425 --> 00:02:59,514 Mistaken identities, shipwreck, pirate king, a bit with a dog, and love triumphant. 22 00:02:59,597 --> 00:03:02,016 I think I've seen it. I didn't like it. 23 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:04,477 But this time it is by Shakespeare. 24 00:03:05,103 --> 00:03:08,982 - What's it called? - Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter. 25 00:03:09,232 --> 00:03:10,650 Good title. 26 00:03:12,485 --> 00:03:14,696 A play takes time. Find the actors, rehearsals. 27 00:03:14,779 --> 00:03:16,364 Let's say we open in two weeks. 28 00:03:16,447 --> 00:03:19,409 That's, what, 500 groundlings at tuppence a head? 29 00:03:19,492 --> 00:03:23,705 In addition, 400 backsides at threepence, a penny extra for cushions. 30 00:03:23,788 --> 00:03:25,957 Call it, 200 cushions. 31 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,502 Say, two performances for safety. How much is that, Mr Frees? 32 00:03:29,586 --> 00:03:31,713 Twenty pounds to the penny, Mr Fennyman. 33 00:03:31,796 --> 00:03:32,839 Correct. 34 00:03:32,922 --> 00:03:35,717 - But I have to pay the actors and the author. - Share of the profits. 35 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,136 - There's never any. - Of course not. 36 00:03:40,096 --> 00:03:42,557 Mr Fennyman, I think you might have hit upon something. 37 00:03:42,974 --> 00:03:44,142 Sign there. 38 00:03:49,355 --> 00:03:52,692 So, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter. 39 00:03:53,610 --> 00:03:54,652 Almost finished? 40 00:03:54,986 --> 00:03:58,323 Without doubt, he's completing it at this very moment. 41 00:04:56,547 --> 00:04:57,882 Will. 42 00:04:58,508 --> 00:04:59,717 Will! 43 00:05:00,969 --> 00:05:02,220 Where is my play? 44 00:05:02,303 --> 00:05:05,223 Tell me you have it nearly done. Tell me you have it started. 45 00:05:05,723 --> 00:05:09,102 "Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt that the sun doth move" 46 00:05:09,185 --> 00:05:12,188 No, no, we haven't the time. Talk prose. 47 00:05:12,271 --> 00:05:13,481 Where is my play? 48 00:05:13,564 --> 00:05:16,192 - It is all locked safe in here. - God be praised. 49 00:05:17,568 --> 00:05:18,945 Locked? 50 00:05:19,028 --> 00:05:22,198 - As soon as I find my muse. - Who is she this time? 51 00:05:22,281 --> 00:05:23,491 She is always Aphrodite. 52 00:05:23,574 --> 00:05:26,411 Aphrodite Baggot, who does it behind the Dog and Trumpet? 53 00:05:26,995 --> 00:05:29,831 Henslowe, you have no soul, 54 00:05:29,914 --> 00:05:33,334 so how can you understand the emptiness that seeks a soul mate? 55 00:05:33,418 --> 00:05:35,461 Will! 56 00:05:35,545 --> 00:05:37,588 I am a dead man, and buggered to boot. 57 00:05:37,672 --> 00:05:40,717 My theatre is closed by the plague these 12 weeks. 58 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,553 My actors are forced to tour the inn yards of England 59 00:05:43,636 --> 00:05:45,513 while Mr Burbage and the Chamberlain's Men 60 00:05:45,596 --> 00:05:49,684 are invited to court and receive 10 pounds to play your piece, 61 00:05:49,767 --> 00:05:52,812 written for my theatre, by my writer, at my risk, 62 00:05:52,895 --> 00:05:54,105 when you were green and grateful. 63 00:05:54,188 --> 00:05:58,109 - What piece? Richard Crookback? - No! It's comedy they want, Will. Comedy. 64 00:05:58,192 --> 00:05:59,444 Like Romeo and Ethel. 65 00:05:59,527 --> 00:06:03,156 - Who wrote that? - Nobody. You were writing it for me. 66 00:06:03,239 --> 00:06:05,742 - I gave you three pound a month since. - Half what you owe me. 67 00:06:05,825 --> 00:06:07,744 I'm still due for One Gentleman of Verona. 68 00:06:07,827 --> 00:06:12,290 Will, what is money to you and me? I, your patron. You, my wordwright. 69 00:06:12,373 --> 00:06:13,374 When the plague lifts, 70 00:06:13,458 --> 00:06:15,877 Burbage will have a new play by Christopher Marlowe for the Curtain. 71 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,047 - I will have nothing for the Rose. - Mr Henslowe. 72 00:06:19,130 --> 00:06:21,758 - Will you lend me 50 pounds? - 50 pounds? What for? 73 00:06:21,841 --> 00:06:23,843 Burbage offers me a partnership in the Chamberlain's Men. 74 00:06:23,926 --> 00:06:26,596 For 50 pounds, my days as a hired player are over. 75 00:06:26,804 --> 00:06:30,725 Cut out my heart. Throw my liver to the dogs. 76 00:06:31,017 --> 00:06:32,185 No, then? 77 00:06:32,268 --> 00:06:34,687 Theatres are handmaidens of the devil! 78 00:06:34,812 --> 00:06:40,401 The players breed lewdness in your wives and wickedness in your children! 79 00:06:40,485 --> 00:06:44,989 And the Rose smells thusly rank by any name! 80 00:06:45,364 --> 00:06:49,952 I say, a plague on both their houses! 81 00:06:50,995 --> 00:06:53,998 - Where are you going? - My weekly confession. 82 00:06:59,337 --> 00:07:01,547 Words, words, words. 83 00:07:02,423 --> 00:07:04,300 Once, I had the gift. 84 00:07:04,842 --> 00:07:08,262 I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. 85 00:07:08,346 --> 00:07:09,847 Love that overthrows empires. 86 00:07:09,931 --> 00:07:13,935 Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire and brimstone. 87 00:07:14,018 --> 00:07:17,688 For six pence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. 88 00:07:18,189 --> 00:07:21,609 - But now... - And yet you tell me you lie with women. 89 00:07:23,820 --> 00:07:26,072 Black Sue, Fat Phoebe, 90 00:07:26,155 --> 00:07:29,951 Rosaline, Burbage's seamstress, Aphrodite, who does it behind... 91 00:07:30,034 --> 00:07:32,036 Yes, now and again. What of it? 92 00:07:33,079 --> 00:07:34,664 I have lost my gift. 93 00:07:35,081 --> 00:07:37,291 I am here to help you. 94 00:07:37,375 --> 00:07:39,669 Tell me, in your own words. 95 00:07:44,090 --> 00:07:46,425 It's as if my quill is broken, 96 00:07:47,635 --> 00:07:50,847 as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, 97 00:07:51,556 --> 00:07:54,892 as if the proud tower of my genius has collapsed. 98 00:07:55,351 --> 00:07:57,353 - Interesting. - Nothing comes. 99 00:07:57,436 --> 00:07:58,729 Most interesting. 100 00:07:58,813 --> 00:08:01,691 It's like trying to pick a lock with a wet herring. 101 00:08:03,609 --> 00:08:07,238 Tell me, are you lately humbled in the act of love? 102 00:08:10,741 --> 00:08:12,577 How long has it been? 103 00:08:13,786 --> 00:08:16,330 A goodly length in times past, but lately... 104 00:08:16,414 --> 00:08:19,959 No, no. You have a wife, children? 105 00:08:23,129 --> 00:08:24,255 Aye. 106 00:08:26,507 --> 00:08:27,508 I was a lad of 18. 107 00:08:27,592 --> 00:08:29,927 Anne Hathaway was a woman half as old again. 108 00:08:30,011 --> 00:08:33,055 - A woman of property? - She had a cottage. 109 00:08:34,056 --> 00:08:35,975 One day she was three months gone with child, so... 110 00:08:36,058 --> 00:08:38,102 And your relations? 111 00:08:38,186 --> 00:08:42,273 - On my mother's side, the Ardens. - No, your marriage bed. 112 00:08:42,982 --> 00:08:46,444 Four years and a hundred miles away in Stratford. 113 00:08:46,527 --> 00:08:49,864 A cold bed, too, since the twins were born. 114 00:08:49,947 --> 00:08:51,449 Banishment was a blessing. 115 00:08:51,532 --> 00:08:55,536 - So, now you are free to love... - Yet cannot love, nor write it. 116 00:08:58,456 --> 00:09:02,084 Here is a bangle found in 117 00:09:02,668 --> 00:09:05,755 Psyche's temple on Olympus. 118 00:09:05,838 --> 00:09:07,673 Cheap at four pence. 119 00:09:07,757 --> 00:09:12,637 Write your name on a paper and feed it into the snake. 120 00:09:13,221 --> 00:09:14,889 Will it restore my gift? 121 00:09:14,972 --> 00:09:18,226 The woman who wears the snake will dream of you, and your gift will return. 122 00:09:18,309 --> 00:09:20,937 Words will flow like a river. 123 00:09:22,021 --> 00:09:23,814 See you next week. 124 00:09:25,816 --> 00:09:28,653 - Now where? - To the palace at Whitehall. 125 00:09:29,570 --> 00:09:30,947 All right. 126 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:37,411 - Hello, Will. - Prithee, Mr Kempe. Break a leg. 127 00:09:39,205 --> 00:09:40,373 You, too, good Crab. 128 00:09:40,456 --> 00:09:42,875 Crab's nervous. He's never played the palace. 129 00:09:42,959 --> 00:09:46,045 When will you write me a tragedy, Will? I could do it. 130 00:09:46,128 --> 00:09:48,339 No, they would laugh at Seneca if you played it. 131 00:09:48,923 --> 00:09:52,093 There is no dog in the first scene, Mr Kempe, thank you. 132 00:09:52,176 --> 00:09:55,221 - How goes it, Will? - I'm still owed money for this play, Burbage. 133 00:09:55,304 --> 00:09:56,889 Not by me. I only stole it. 134 00:09:56,973 --> 00:09:59,350 My sleeve wants for a button, Mistress Rosaline. 135 00:09:59,433 --> 00:10:01,894 Where were my seamstress's eyes? 136 00:10:02,728 --> 00:10:04,605 When are you coming over to the Chamberlain's Men? 137 00:10:04,689 --> 00:10:06,440 When I have 50 pounds. 138 00:10:06,524 --> 00:10:09,610 - You writing? - A comedy. All but done. 139 00:10:10,319 --> 00:10:13,281 - A pirate comedy. Wonderful. - Bring it tomorrow. 140 00:10:13,364 --> 00:10:14,824 It's for Henslowe. He paid me. 141 00:10:14,907 --> 00:10:16,200 - How much? - 10 pounds. 142 00:10:16,284 --> 00:10:17,326 - You're a liar. - I swear. 143 00:10:17,410 --> 00:10:19,537 He wants Romeo for Ned and the Admiral's Men. 144 00:10:19,620 --> 00:10:23,165 - Mmm, Ned's wrong for it. - Will! 145 00:10:26,168 --> 00:10:27,670 Here's two sovereigns. I'll give you another two 146 00:10:27,753 --> 00:10:29,088 - when I see the pages. - Done. 147 00:10:29,171 --> 00:10:31,424 Burbage, I will see you hanged for a pickpocket. 148 00:10:31,507 --> 00:10:33,843 The Queen has commanded it. She loves a comedy. 149 00:10:33,926 --> 00:10:36,470 And the Master of the Revels favours us. 150 00:10:36,554 --> 00:10:39,598 And what favour does Mr Tilney receive from you? 151 00:10:39,682 --> 00:10:41,559 - Ask him. - She comes! 152 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,588 Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus. 153 00:11:10,671 --> 00:11:12,840 Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. 154 00:11:12,923 --> 00:11:16,052 Were it not affection chains thy tender days... 155 00:11:19,513 --> 00:11:23,017 - When will you write me a sonnet, Will? - I've lost my gift. 156 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:26,437 You left it in my bed. Come to look for it again. 157 00:11:32,985 --> 00:11:35,571 Are you to be my muse, Rosaline? 158 00:11:36,614 --> 00:11:40,409 Burbage has my keeping, but you have my heart. 159 00:11:44,121 --> 00:11:46,665 You see? The consumptives plot against me. 160 00:11:46,749 --> 00:11:50,544 Will Shakespeare has a play. Let's go and cough through it. 161 00:11:52,630 --> 00:11:55,841 My father weeping, my mother wailing, 162 00:11:55,925 --> 00:11:59,637 our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands. 163 00:12:01,889 --> 00:12:07,103 Yet did not this coldhearted cur shed one tear. 164 00:12:20,074 --> 00:12:21,742 You see? Comedy. 165 00:12:24,328 --> 00:12:27,665 Love, and a bit with a dog. That's what they want. 166 00:12:35,798 --> 00:12:39,343 He is a stone, a very pebble stone, 167 00:12:39,427 --> 00:12:43,139 and has no more pity in him than a dog. 168 00:12:43,222 --> 00:12:46,434 A Jew would have wept to have seen our parting. 169 00:12:46,517 --> 00:12:51,522 Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear, nor speaks a word... 170 00:12:52,148 --> 00:12:56,402 Well played, Master Crab! I commend you! 171 00:13:01,740 --> 00:13:06,287 What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? 172 00:13:07,538 --> 00:13:12,042 What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? 173 00:13:12,793 --> 00:13:15,588 Unless it be to think that she is by 174 00:13:15,671 --> 00:13:18,883 and feed upon the shadow of perfection, 175 00:13:20,885 --> 00:13:23,929 except I be by Silvia in the night, 176 00:13:24,013 --> 00:13:26,724 there is no music in the nightingale. 177 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,227 Unless I look on Silvia in the day, 178 00:13:30,311 --> 00:13:32,897 there is no day for me to look upon. 179 00:13:57,546 --> 00:14:00,341 Did you like Proteus or Valentine best? 180 00:14:00,799 --> 00:14:03,928 Proteus for speaking. Valentine for looks. 181 00:14:04,011 --> 00:14:06,347 I liked the dog for laughs. 182 00:14:06,430 --> 00:14:08,807 Silvia, I did not care for much. 183 00:14:08,891 --> 00:14:13,646 His fingers were red from fighting, and he spoke like a schoolboy at lessons. 184 00:14:14,271 --> 00:14:18,275 Stage love will never be true love while the law of the land has our heroines 185 00:14:18,359 --> 00:14:21,487 being played by pipsqueak boys in petticoats. 186 00:14:22,988 --> 00:14:25,533 - When can we see another? - When the Queen commands it. 187 00:14:25,616 --> 00:14:27,618 No, but at the playhouse. Nurse! 188 00:14:27,701 --> 00:14:31,372 Now be still. Playhouses are not for wellborn ladies. 189 00:14:31,455 --> 00:14:33,624 I'm not so wellborn. 190 00:14:33,707 --> 00:14:35,960 Well-moneyed is the same as wellborn, 191 00:14:36,043 --> 00:14:38,295 and well-married is more so. 192 00:14:38,837 --> 00:14:41,048 Lord Wessex was looking at you tonight. 193 00:14:41,131 --> 00:14:43,592 All the men at court are without poetry. 194 00:14:43,676 --> 00:14:46,011 If they see me, they see my father's fortune. 195 00:14:46,095 --> 00:14:49,056 I will have poetry in my life, 196 00:14:50,432 --> 00:14:51,976 and adventure. 197 00:14:53,477 --> 00:14:56,230 And love. Love above all. 198 00:14:56,313 --> 00:14:58,190 Like Valentine and Silvia? 199 00:14:58,274 --> 00:15:01,902 No, not the artful postures of love, 200 00:15:02,278 --> 00:15:05,406 but love that overthrows life. 201 00:15:06,407 --> 00:15:09,952 Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, 202 00:15:10,035 --> 00:15:13,122 and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. 203 00:15:14,582 --> 00:15:17,376 Love as there has never been in a play. 204 00:15:18,335 --> 00:15:22,256 I will have love, or I will end my days as... 205 00:15:22,339 --> 00:15:23,799 As a nurse? 206 00:15:25,342 --> 00:15:28,345 But I would be Valentine and Silvia, too. 207 00:15:29,263 --> 00:15:32,850 Good nurse, God save you, and good night. 208 00:15:35,060 --> 00:15:37,021 I would stay asleep my whole life 209 00:15:37,104 --> 00:15:40,441 if I could dream myself into a company of players. 210 00:15:41,609 --> 00:15:44,403 Clean your teeth while you dream, then. 211 00:15:47,906 --> 00:15:49,241 Now spit. 212 00:16:13,474 --> 00:16:16,727 This time the boots are coming off. 213 00:16:17,061 --> 00:16:18,228 What have I done, Mr Fennyman? 214 00:16:18,312 --> 00:16:20,648 The theatres have all been closed down by the plague. 215 00:16:20,731 --> 00:16:23,359 - Oh, that. - By order of the Master of the Revels. 216 00:16:23,442 --> 00:16:27,321 Mr Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. 217 00:16:27,905 --> 00:16:28,989 The natural condition 218 00:16:29,073 --> 00:16:32,618 is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. 219 00:16:32,701 --> 00:16:34,662 - So what do we do? - Nothing. 220 00:16:34,745 --> 00:16:37,915 - Strangely enough, it all turns out well. - How? 221 00:16:39,249 --> 00:16:41,001 I don't know. It's a mystery. 222 00:16:41,085 --> 00:16:43,045 Shall I kill him, Mr Fennyman? 223 00:16:43,128 --> 00:16:49,176 The theatres are reopened by order of the Master of the Revels! 224 00:16:49,259 --> 00:16:51,595 The theatres are reopened! 225 00:16:53,138 --> 00:16:56,850 Mr Fennyman. Mr Tilney has reopened the playhouses. 226 00:16:56,934 --> 00:16:58,852 If you wouldn't mind. 227 00:17:02,856 --> 00:17:03,857 Where's the play? 228 00:17:04,358 --> 00:17:06,568 It's coming. It's coming. 229 00:17:09,613 --> 00:17:11,115 It's coming. 230 00:17:22,876 --> 00:17:24,044 Will! 231 00:17:24,837 --> 00:17:26,171 Will, I have wonderful news. 232 00:17:26,255 --> 00:17:28,716 So have I. Romeo and Rosaline, Scene one. 233 00:17:28,799 --> 00:17:30,342 God, I'm good! 234 00:17:31,135 --> 00:17:33,262 Rosaline? You mean Ethel. 235 00:17:38,809 --> 00:17:40,144 Richard? 236 00:17:42,646 --> 00:17:43,897 Burbage! 237 00:17:50,904 --> 00:17:52,489 Mr Tilney. 238 00:17:52,573 --> 00:17:55,784 Like you, I found him not at home. 239 00:17:58,620 --> 00:18:00,914 I would've made you immortal. 240 00:18:04,501 --> 00:18:07,629 Tell Burbage he has lost a new play by Will Shakespeare. 241 00:18:07,713 --> 00:18:10,048 What does Burbage care of that? 242 00:18:10,132 --> 00:18:13,969 He's readying the Curtain for Kit Marlowe. 243 00:18:14,052 --> 00:18:17,514 - You've opened the playhouses? - I have, Master Shakespeare. 244 00:18:17,598 --> 00:18:20,768 - But the plague? - Yes, I know. 245 00:18:20,851 --> 00:18:23,353 But he was always hanging around the house. 246 00:18:37,618 --> 00:18:41,622 The special today is a pig's foot marinated in juniper berry vinegar, 247 00:18:41,705 --> 00:18:44,416 - served on a buckwheat pancake... - Will! 248 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:46,210 Have you finished? 249 00:18:46,668 --> 00:18:48,128 Yes, nearly. 250 00:18:48,212 --> 00:18:49,338 Good morning, Master Nol. 251 00:18:49,421 --> 00:18:51,340 - You will have a little nice part. - Yes! 252 00:18:51,423 --> 00:18:55,344 - We'll need Ralph for the pirate king. - Clear that bloody table! 253 00:18:56,637 --> 00:19:00,682 Ned Alleyn and the Admiral's Men are out on tour. I need actors! 254 00:19:01,850 --> 00:19:05,646 Those of you who are unknown will have a chance to be known! 255 00:19:05,729 --> 00:19:09,399 - What about the money, Mr Henslowe? - It won't cost you a penny! 256 00:19:10,818 --> 00:19:12,945 Auditions in half an hour! 257 00:19:18,408 --> 00:19:19,993 Ralph Bagswell, I'd have a part for you, 258 00:19:20,077 --> 00:19:22,746 but, alas, I hear you are a drunkard's drunkard. 259 00:19:22,830 --> 00:19:24,873 Never when I'm working. 260 00:19:25,415 --> 00:19:27,918 Never when I'm working! 261 00:19:29,127 --> 00:19:31,505 Get me to drink mandragora. 262 00:19:31,588 --> 00:19:33,257 Straight up, Will? 263 00:19:33,340 --> 00:19:35,425 Give my friend a beaker of your best brandy. 264 00:19:36,718 --> 00:19:37,803 Kit. 265 00:19:38,929 --> 00:19:41,765 - How goes it, Will? - Wonderful. Wonderful. 266 00:19:41,849 --> 00:19:46,019 - Burbage says you have a play. - I have, and the chinks to show for it. 267 00:19:46,103 --> 00:19:48,730 I insist. A beaker for Mr Marlowe. 268 00:19:49,690 --> 00:19:52,109 I hear you have a new play for the Curtain. 269 00:19:52,192 --> 00:19:54,653 - Not new. My Doctor Faustus. - Ah. 270 00:19:54,945 --> 00:19:56,405 I love your early work. 271 00:19:57,155 --> 00:19:59,491 "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships 272 00:19:59,575 --> 00:20:02,411 and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" 273 00:20:02,494 --> 00:20:07,040 I have a new one nearly finished, and better. The Massacre at Paris. 274 00:20:08,792 --> 00:20:11,128 - Good title. - Mmm. Yours? 275 00:20:12,421 --> 00:20:15,132 Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter. 276 00:20:16,925 --> 00:20:18,552 Yes, I know. I know. 277 00:20:18,635 --> 00:20:20,304 What is the story? 278 00:20:21,305 --> 00:20:23,307 Well, there's this pirate... 279 00:20:26,602 --> 00:20:28,312 In truth, I have not written a word. 280 00:20:30,063 --> 00:20:31,273 Romeo. 281 00:20:32,107 --> 00:20:36,820 Romeo is Italian, always in and out of love. 282 00:20:37,654 --> 00:20:39,865 Yes, that's good. Until he meets... 283 00:20:40,324 --> 00:20:42,034 - Ethel. - Do you think? 284 00:20:42,117 --> 00:20:44,870 - The daughter of his enemy. - The daughter of his enemy. 285 00:20:44,953 --> 00:20:47,039 His best friend is killed in a duel 286 00:20:47,122 --> 00:20:50,542 by Ethel's brother, or something... His name is Mercutio. 287 00:20:50,626 --> 00:20:52,836 Mercutio. Good name. 288 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,173 - Will! They're waiting for you! - Yes, I'm coming. 289 00:20:56,757 --> 00:20:58,926 Good luck with yours, Kit. 290 00:20:59,051 --> 00:21:02,596 - I thought your play was for Burbage. - This is a different one. 291 00:21:02,846 --> 00:21:04,681 A different one you haven't written? 292 00:21:05,933 --> 00:21:10,103 Was this the face that launched a thousand ships 293 00:21:10,187 --> 00:21:13,023 and burnt the topless towers of Ilium? 294 00:21:13,106 --> 00:21:14,316 Thank you. 295 00:21:14,399 --> 00:21:17,069 Was this the face that launched a thousand ships 296 00:21:17,152 --> 00:21:19,780 - and burnt the topless towers of Ilium? - Thank you! 297 00:21:19,863 --> 00:21:21,448 Was this the face 298 00:21:21,531 --> 00:21:25,577 that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless... 299 00:21:25,661 --> 00:21:29,581 I would like to give you something from Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. 300 00:21:29,665 --> 00:21:32,501 - How refreshing. - ...the topless towers of Ilium? 301 00:21:32,584 --> 00:21:35,504 Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. 302 00:21:39,591 --> 00:21:40,801 Was this the... 303 00:21:41,176 --> 00:21:44,054 Very good, Mr Wabash. Excellent. Report to the property master. 304 00:21:46,139 --> 00:21:48,058 My tailor wants to be an actor. 305 00:21:48,850 --> 00:21:52,229 I have a few debts here and there. Well, that seems to be everybody. 306 00:21:52,896 --> 00:21:55,065 - Did you see a Romeo? - I did not. 307 00:21:55,148 --> 00:21:57,275 Well, I to my work, you to yours. 308 00:22:05,951 --> 00:22:07,077 May I begin, sir? 309 00:22:09,079 --> 00:22:11,123 - Your name? - Thomas Kent. 310 00:22:12,207 --> 00:22:17,087 I would like to do a speech by a writer who commands the heart of every player. 311 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,468 What light is light, 312 00:22:24,970 --> 00:22:27,014 if Silvia be not seen? 313 00:22:29,016 --> 00:22:32,811 What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? 314 00:22:34,646 --> 00:22:36,606 Unless it be to think that she is by 315 00:22:36,690 --> 00:22:39,985 and feed upon the shadow of perfection, 316 00:22:42,612 --> 00:22:46,491 except I be by Silvia in the night, 317 00:22:47,993 --> 00:22:50,662 there is no music in the nightingale. 318 00:22:52,039 --> 00:22:55,250 Unless I look on Silvia in the day, 319 00:22:55,959 --> 00:22:58,587 there is no day for me to look upon. 320 00:23:00,547 --> 00:23:05,802 She is my essence, and I leave to be, if I be not... 321 00:23:05,886 --> 00:23:08,805 - Take off your hat! - My hat? 322 00:23:09,681 --> 00:23:11,433 Where'd you learn how to do that? 323 00:23:11,516 --> 00:23:13,977 - I... - Let me see you. Take off your hat. 324 00:23:14,061 --> 00:23:17,105 - Are you Master Shakespeare? - Wait there. 325 00:23:17,189 --> 00:23:18,273 Wait there! 326 00:23:31,787 --> 00:23:35,040 - Will, where are the pages? - Where is the boy? 327 00:23:39,169 --> 00:23:40,670 Break a leg! 328 00:23:44,674 --> 00:23:47,219 Sir, will you buy my sweet orange? 329 00:24:06,404 --> 00:24:07,531 Hey! 330 00:24:29,719 --> 00:24:32,722 - Follow that boat! - Right you are, governor. 331 00:24:37,853 --> 00:24:40,397 I know your face. Are you an actor? 332 00:24:41,106 --> 00:24:44,109 - Yes. - Yes, I think I've seen you in something. 333 00:24:44,192 --> 00:24:46,570 - That one about a king. - Really? 334 00:24:47,362 --> 00:24:49,656 I had that Christopher Marlowe in my boat once. 335 00:25:02,711 --> 00:25:05,964 - Do you know that house? - Sir Robert De Lesseps. 336 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,270 Where is she? Our guests are upon us! 337 00:25:20,812 --> 00:25:24,524 Lord Wessex, too, bargaining for a bride. 338 00:25:24,608 --> 00:25:27,360 My husband will have it settled tonight. 339 00:25:27,569 --> 00:25:30,197 Stamped, sealed and celebrated. 340 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,325 Tomorrow he drags me off to the country, 341 00:25:33,408 --> 00:25:37,037 and it will be three weeks gone before we return from our estates. 342 00:25:39,372 --> 00:25:40,624 God save you, Mother. 343 00:25:41,708 --> 00:25:43,418 Hot water, Nurse. 344 00:25:48,131 --> 00:25:49,591 I seek Master Thomas Kent. 345 00:25:49,674 --> 00:25:51,801 - Who, sir? - The actor. 346 00:25:51,885 --> 00:25:54,221 - Who asks for him? - Will Shakespeare. 347 00:25:54,304 --> 00:25:56,139 Poet, playwright of the Rose. 348 00:25:57,015 --> 00:26:00,185 Master Kent is my nephew. 349 00:26:01,811 --> 00:26:03,313 I will wait. 350 00:26:04,314 --> 00:26:06,358 Much good may it do you. 351 00:26:09,736 --> 00:26:13,823 "Romeo Montague, A Young Man of Verona." 352 00:26:13,907 --> 00:26:15,533 Verona again? 353 00:26:15,617 --> 00:26:20,288 "A comedy of quarrelling families, reconciled in the discovery of Romeo 354 00:26:20,372 --> 00:26:22,749 to be the very same Capulet cousin 355 00:26:22,832 --> 00:26:26,753 stolen from the cradle and fostered to manhood by his Montague mother 356 00:26:26,836 --> 00:26:30,632 that was robbed of her own child by the pirate king." 357 00:26:31,424 --> 00:26:32,801 Your mother and your father... 358 00:26:32,884 --> 00:26:36,179 From tomorrow, away in the country for three weeks! 359 00:26:37,597 --> 00:26:39,349 Is Master Shakespeare not handsome? 360 00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:41,977 - He looks well enough for a charlatan. - Nurse! 361 00:26:42,060 --> 00:26:45,313 He would give Thomas Kent the life of Viola De Lesseps' dreaming. 362 00:26:45,397 --> 00:26:48,233 My lady, when your parents return, I will tell. 363 00:26:48,316 --> 00:26:50,110 You will not tell. 364 00:26:50,193 --> 00:26:51,778 As I love you and as you love me, 365 00:26:51,861 --> 00:26:55,156 you will bind my breast and buy me a boy's wig. 366 00:27:02,289 --> 00:27:04,124 Master Plum. What business here? 367 00:27:04,207 --> 00:27:07,919 The five shilling business, Will. We play for the dancing. 368 00:27:27,230 --> 00:27:28,773 I seek Master Thomas Kent. 369 00:27:28,857 --> 00:27:31,943 Musicians don't eat. Sir Robert's orders. 370 00:27:33,069 --> 00:27:34,821 She's a beauty, my lord, 371 00:27:34,904 --> 00:27:38,116 as would take a king to church for the dowry of a nutmeg. 372 00:27:38,199 --> 00:27:42,078 My plantations in Virginia are not mortgaged for a nutmeg. 373 00:27:42,162 --> 00:27:44,414 I have an ancient name which will bring you preferment 374 00:27:44,497 --> 00:27:46,666 when your grandson is a Wessex. 375 00:27:46,750 --> 00:27:48,668 - Is she fertile? - She will breed. 376 00:27:49,252 --> 00:27:52,589 - If she do not, send her back. - Is she obedient? 377 00:27:53,214 --> 00:27:54,841 As any mule in Christendom. 378 00:27:54,924 --> 00:27:59,346 But if you are the man to ride her, there are rubies in the saddlebag. 379 00:28:00,722 --> 00:28:02,140 I like her. 380 00:28:22,452 --> 00:28:25,455 By all the stars in heaven. Who is she? 381 00:28:26,706 --> 00:28:29,709 Viola De Lesseps? Dream on, Will. 382 00:29:08,623 --> 00:29:10,375 Master Shakespeare. 383 00:29:17,507 --> 00:29:20,051 - My Lady Viola. - My lord. 384 00:29:20,677 --> 00:29:23,263 I have spoken with your father. 385 00:29:23,346 --> 00:29:26,224 So, my lord? I speak with him every day. 386 00:29:44,075 --> 00:29:45,452 Good sir. 387 00:29:47,078 --> 00:29:49,080 I heard you were a poet. 388 00:29:53,042 --> 00:29:54,836 A poet of no words? 389 00:30:00,717 --> 00:30:01,885 Poet? 390 00:30:02,886 --> 00:30:06,473 I was a poet till now, but I've seen beauty that puts my poems 391 00:30:06,556 --> 00:30:09,559 at one with the talking ravens in the Tower. 392 00:30:10,685 --> 00:30:13,688 - How do I offend, my lord? - By coveting my property. 393 00:30:13,771 --> 00:30:16,441 I cannot shed blood in her house, but I will cut your throat anon. 394 00:30:16,524 --> 00:30:18,276 Do you have a name? 395 00:30:19,277 --> 00:30:21,613 Christopher Marlowe, at your service. 396 00:30:46,012 --> 00:30:48,181 Romeo. Romeo. 397 00:30:48,515 --> 00:30:50,433 A Young Man of Verona. 398 00:30:51,476 --> 00:30:54,270 A comedy by William Shakespeare. 399 00:30:54,354 --> 00:30:56,856 - My lady! - Who is there? 400 00:30:58,608 --> 00:31:00,693 - Will Shakespeare. - Madam! 401 00:31:01,611 --> 00:31:03,821 Anon, good nurse, anon. 402 00:31:05,198 --> 00:31:08,117 - Master Shakespeare. - The same, alas. 403 00:31:08,785 --> 00:31:09,827 But why "alas"? 404 00:31:09,911 --> 00:31:12,205 - A lowly player. - "Alas," indeed. 405 00:31:12,664 --> 00:31:15,291 For I thought you the highest poet of my esteem 406 00:31:15,375 --> 00:31:17,919 and a writer of plays that capture my heart. 407 00:31:18,002 --> 00:31:19,921 - I am him, too. - Madam! 408 00:31:20,004 --> 00:31:23,007 Anon! I will come again. 409 00:31:25,218 --> 00:31:28,680 O, I am fortune's fool. I will be punished for this. 410 00:31:31,641 --> 00:31:33,560 My lady, my love! 411 00:31:34,227 --> 00:31:36,521 If they find you here, they will kill you. 412 00:31:36,604 --> 00:31:40,316 - You can bring them with a word. - Not for the world. 413 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,278 - Madam! - Anon! 414 00:32:42,879 --> 00:32:44,255 "Draw, if you be men 415 00:32:44,339 --> 00:32:46,466 Gregory, remember thy washing blow!" 416 00:32:46,549 --> 00:32:49,969 "Part, fools! Put up your swords. You know not what you do." 417 00:32:50,053 --> 00:32:53,306 It starts well, then it's all long-faced about some Rosaline. 418 00:32:53,389 --> 00:32:56,100 Where's the comedy, Will? Where's the dog? 419 00:32:56,184 --> 00:32:57,393 Do you think it's funny? 420 00:32:57,477 --> 00:33:01,064 I was a pirate king, now I'm a nurse. That's funny. 421 00:33:01,147 --> 00:33:04,233 We are at least six men short, and those we have will be overparted ranters 422 00:33:04,317 --> 00:33:06,361 and stutterers who should be sent back to the stews. 423 00:33:06,444 --> 00:33:08,071 My Romeo's let me down. I see disaster. 424 00:33:08,154 --> 00:33:10,865 We're at least four acts short, Will, if you're looking for disaster. 425 00:33:10,948 --> 00:33:13,117 - Sir! - Who are you, master? 426 00:33:14,077 --> 00:33:16,871 I'm Ethel, sir, the pirate's daughter. 427 00:33:17,497 --> 00:33:19,582 I'll be damned if you are! 428 00:33:21,542 --> 00:33:23,252 Your attention, please! 429 00:33:23,628 --> 00:33:26,631 - Gentlemen, thank you! - You are welcome. 430 00:33:26,714 --> 00:33:28,841 - Who's that? - Nobody. He's the author. 431 00:33:28,925 --> 00:33:33,179 We are about to embark on a great voyage. 432 00:33:33,262 --> 00:33:36,099 It is customary to make a little speech on the first day. 433 00:33:36,182 --> 00:33:37,934 It does no harm. Authors like it. 434 00:33:38,017 --> 00:33:42,188 You want to know what parts you are to receive. All will be settled as we go... 435 00:33:42,271 --> 00:33:43,690 I'll do it. 436 00:33:44,232 --> 00:33:46,609 Now listen to me, you dregs. 437 00:33:46,693 --> 00:33:48,695 Actors are ten a penny, 438 00:33:48,778 --> 00:33:52,323 and I, Hugh Fennyman, hold your nuts in my hand. 439 00:33:53,533 --> 00:33:54,784 Huzzah! 440 00:33:55,159 --> 00:33:57,870 The Admiral's Men are returned to the house! 441 00:33:57,954 --> 00:33:59,622 Huzzah! 442 00:34:01,290 --> 00:34:02,417 Ned! 443 00:34:04,001 --> 00:34:05,336 Henslowe! 444 00:34:06,879 --> 00:34:08,798 Good to see you. 445 00:34:13,094 --> 00:34:14,554 Who is this? 446 00:34:14,637 --> 00:34:16,556 Silence, you dog! 447 00:34:18,182 --> 00:34:19,809 I am Hieronimo. 448 00:34:20,601 --> 00:34:22,311 I am Tamburlaine. 449 00:34:22,937 --> 00:34:24,397 I am Faustus. 450 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,484 I am Barabas, the Jew of Malta. 451 00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:33,865 Yes, Master Will. I am Henry VI. 452 00:34:33,948 --> 00:34:37,410 What is the play, and what is my part? 453 00:34:37,493 --> 00:34:39,912 - One moment, sir... - Who are you? 454 00:34:40,955 --> 00:34:42,290 I'm... 455 00:34:43,332 --> 00:34:44,876 I'm the money. 456 00:34:44,959 --> 00:34:47,962 Then you may remain, so long as you remain silent. 457 00:34:48,045 --> 00:34:51,549 Pay attention. You will see how genius creates a legend. 458 00:34:51,632 --> 00:34:52,592 Thank you, sir. 459 00:34:52,675 --> 00:34:55,094 We are in desperate want of a Mercutio, Ned. 460 00:34:55,178 --> 00:34:57,638 - A young nobleman of Verona. - Mmm-hmm. 461 00:34:57,722 --> 00:34:59,599 - And the title of this piece? - Mercutio. 462 00:34:59,682 --> 00:35:00,892 Is it? 463 00:35:02,477 --> 00:35:04,103 I will play him. 464 00:35:05,813 --> 00:35:08,691 Mr Pope. Mr Philips. Welcome. 465 00:35:08,775 --> 00:35:11,027 George Bryan. James Armitage. 466 00:35:11,110 --> 00:35:13,196 Sam, my pretty one! 467 00:35:13,780 --> 00:35:17,116 - Are you ready to fall in love again? - I am, Master Shakespeare. 468 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,954 - Your voice. Have they dropped? - No! No. A touch of cold only. 469 00:35:22,038 --> 00:35:25,666 Master Henslowe, you have your actors, except Thomas Kent. 470 00:35:26,626 --> 00:35:29,253 I... I saw his Tamburlaine, you know. 471 00:35:29,337 --> 00:35:31,047 - It was wonderful. - Yes, I saw it. 472 00:35:31,130 --> 00:35:34,967 Of course, such mighty writing. There's no one like Marlowe. 473 00:35:49,607 --> 00:35:51,442 Better fortune, boy. 474 00:35:51,734 --> 00:35:53,319 I was in a play. 475 00:35:53,402 --> 00:35:56,447 They cut my head off in Titus Andronicus. 476 00:35:56,531 --> 00:35:59,450 When I write plays, they'll be like Titus. 477 00:35:59,742 --> 00:36:00,868 You admire it. 478 00:36:00,952 --> 00:36:05,665 I liked it when they cut heads off, and the daughter mutilated with knives. 479 00:36:06,290 --> 00:36:08,292 - What's your name? - John Webster. 480 00:36:09,460 --> 00:36:11,254 Here, kitty, kitty. 481 00:36:15,466 --> 00:36:17,301 Plenty of blood. 482 00:36:17,385 --> 00:36:19,428 That's the only writing. 483 00:36:20,513 --> 00:36:22,306 I have to get back. 484 00:36:22,390 --> 00:36:25,434 See, where he comes. So please you step aside. 485 00:36:25,518 --> 00:36:27,520 I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. 486 00:36:27,603 --> 00:36:29,522 I would thou wert so happy by thy stay, 487 00:36:29,605 --> 00:36:31,566 to hear true shrift. Come, madam. 488 00:36:31,649 --> 00:36:33,526 - Cut around him for now. - What? Who? 489 00:36:33,609 --> 00:36:35,862 - Romeo. - The one who came with your letter. 490 00:36:35,945 --> 00:36:38,030 - What? - Good morrow, cousin. 491 00:36:38,114 --> 00:36:39,532 Is the day so young? 492 00:36:39,615 --> 00:36:43,452 - But new struck nine. - Ay me! Sad hours seem long. 493 00:36:43,536 --> 00:36:46,163 What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? 494 00:36:46,247 --> 00:36:49,208 Not having that, which, having, makes them short. 495 00:36:49,292 --> 00:36:50,710 - Good. - In love? 496 00:36:50,793 --> 00:36:52,378 - Out... - Of love? 497 00:36:52,461 --> 00:36:57,300 - Out of her favour, where I am in love. - No, no, no. Don't spend it all at once. 498 00:36:59,468 --> 00:37:00,761 Yes, sir. 499 00:37:00,845 --> 00:37:03,723 - Do you understand me? - No, sir. 500 00:37:04,557 --> 00:37:06,976 You're speaking about a baggage we never even meet. 501 00:37:07,059 --> 00:37:09,353 What will be left in your purse when he meets his Juliet? 502 00:37:09,437 --> 00:37:11,731 - Juliet? You mean Ethel. - God's teeth! 503 00:37:11,814 --> 00:37:15,192 Am I to suffer this constant stream of interruption? 504 00:37:17,570 --> 00:37:21,532 What will he do in Act Two, when he meets the love of his life? 505 00:37:23,576 --> 00:37:26,746 I'm very sorry, sir. I have not seen Act Two. 506 00:37:28,039 --> 00:37:30,625 Of course you have not. I have not written it. 507 00:37:30,708 --> 00:37:32,209 Go once more. 508 00:37:33,252 --> 00:37:36,213 Will. Where is Mercutio? 509 00:37:37,173 --> 00:37:39,508 Locked safe in here. I'll leave the scene in your safekeeping, Ned. 510 00:37:39,592 --> 00:37:40,968 I have a sonnet to write. 511 00:37:41,052 --> 00:37:43,179 Sonnet? You mean a play! 512 00:37:47,683 --> 00:37:50,686 "For Lady Viola De Lesseps, 513 00:37:51,312 --> 00:37:53,648 by the hand of Thomas Kent." 514 00:37:54,357 --> 00:37:56,859 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" 515 00:37:57,735 --> 00:38:00,488 "Thou art more lovely and more temperate 516 00:38:03,491 --> 00:38:06,369 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May..." 517 00:38:06,452 --> 00:38:08,371 Two hours at prayer! 518 00:38:08,537 --> 00:38:12,500 - Lady Viola is pious, my lord. - Piety is for Sunday! 519 00:38:12,583 --> 00:38:15,503 And two hours of prayer is not piety, it is self-importance. 520 00:38:15,586 --> 00:38:17,964 It would be better that you return tomorrow, my lord. 521 00:38:18,047 --> 00:38:21,133 It would be better if you'd tell her to get off her knees and show some civility 522 00:38:21,217 --> 00:38:23,594 to her six-day lord and master! 523 00:38:34,230 --> 00:38:35,940 My Lady Viola. 524 00:38:36,023 --> 00:38:38,818 Lord Wessex. You've been waiting. 525 00:38:38,901 --> 00:38:40,611 I am aware of it. 526 00:38:41,570 --> 00:38:43,322 But it is beauty's privilege. 527 00:38:44,115 --> 00:38:45,658 You flatter, my lord. 528 00:38:45,741 --> 00:38:48,786 No. I have spoken to the Queen. 529 00:38:49,912 --> 00:38:52,456 Her Majesty's consent is requisite when a Wessex takes a wife, 530 00:38:52,540 --> 00:38:55,459 and once given, her consent is her command. 531 00:38:55,543 --> 00:38:58,004 Do you intend to marry, my lord? 532 00:38:58,087 --> 00:39:00,339 Your father should keep you better informed. 533 00:39:00,423 --> 00:39:02,466 He has bought me for you. 534 00:39:03,634 --> 00:39:07,722 He returns from his estates to see us married two weeks from Saturday. 535 00:39:07,805 --> 00:39:09,890 You are allowed to show your pleasure. 536 00:39:12,101 --> 00:39:14,395 But I do not love you, my lord. 537 00:39:14,895 --> 00:39:17,273 How your mind hops about. 538 00:39:17,356 --> 00:39:19,608 Your father was a shopkeeper. 539 00:39:19,775 --> 00:39:22,028 Your children will bear arms, and I will recover my fortune. 540 00:39:22,111 --> 00:39:25,239 That is the only matter under discussion today. 541 00:39:25,322 --> 00:39:26,615 You will like Virginia. 542 00:39:27,283 --> 00:39:29,201 - Virginia? - Yes. 543 00:39:29,285 --> 00:39:32,538 My fortune lies in my plantations. The tobacco weed. 544 00:39:32,621 --> 00:39:36,042 I need 4,000 pounds to fit out a ship and put my investments to work. 545 00:39:36,125 --> 00:39:38,419 I fancy tobacco has a future. 546 00:39:39,420 --> 00:39:42,131 We will not stay there long. Three or four years. 547 00:39:43,758 --> 00:39:46,552 - But why me? - It was your eyes. 548 00:39:48,095 --> 00:39:49,638 No, your lips. 549 00:40:00,649 --> 00:40:03,235 Will you defy your father and your queen? 550 00:40:03,319 --> 00:40:05,571 The Queen has consented? 551 00:40:05,654 --> 00:40:09,408 She wants to inspect you. At Greenwich, come Sunday. 552 00:40:10,117 --> 00:40:15,331 Be submissive, modest, grateful and brief. 553 00:40:18,209 --> 00:40:20,711 I will do my duty, my lord. 554 00:40:25,841 --> 00:40:29,637 "Master Will, poet dearest to my heart, 555 00:40:30,513 --> 00:40:33,849 I beseech you, banish me from yours." 556 00:40:34,475 --> 00:40:36,644 "I am to marry Lord Wessex." 557 00:40:38,646 --> 00:40:43,025 "A daughter's duty and the Queen's command." 558 00:41:05,172 --> 00:41:08,926 Gentlemen upstage Ladies downstage 559 00:41:10,845 --> 00:41:14,640 Gentlemen upstage Ladies downstage 560 00:41:14,723 --> 00:41:17,893 Are you a lady, Mr Kent? 561 00:41:17,977 --> 00:41:19,895 I'm very sorry, sir. 562 00:41:22,606 --> 00:41:25,067 We're gonna have to do it again. 563 00:41:26,735 --> 00:41:30,656 - You did not like the speech? - No, the speech is excellent. 564 00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:34,368 "Oh, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you." 565 00:41:35,035 --> 00:41:37,163 Excellent, and a good length. 566 00:41:37,246 --> 00:41:40,624 But then he disappears for the length of a Bible. 567 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,254 There. You have this duel. 568 00:41:45,337 --> 00:41:48,966 A skirmish of words and swords such as I never wrote, nor anyone. 569 00:41:49,049 --> 00:41:53,637 He dies with such passion and poetry as you ever heard. 570 00:41:54,138 --> 00:41:57,016 "A plague on both your houses!" 571 00:42:02,605 --> 00:42:03,939 He dies? 572 00:42:08,777 --> 00:42:11,739 Will! Where are my pages? 573 00:42:24,418 --> 00:42:26,629 Did you give her my letter? 574 00:42:27,588 --> 00:42:29,423 And this is for you! 575 00:42:43,020 --> 00:42:45,606 Thomas, she has cut my strings. 576 00:42:47,650 --> 00:42:51,320 I'm unmanned, unmended and unmade, 577 00:42:52,947 --> 00:42:54,907 like a puppet in a box. 578 00:42:54,990 --> 00:42:57,368 - Writer, is he? - Row your boat! 579 00:42:57,785 --> 00:42:59,245 She tells me to keep away. 580 00:42:59,328 --> 00:43:02,998 She is to marry Lord Wessex! What should I do? 581 00:43:03,082 --> 00:43:05,376 If you love her, you must do as she asks. 582 00:43:05,459 --> 00:43:08,295 - And break her heart and mine? - It is only yours you can know. 583 00:43:08,379 --> 00:43:11,215 - She loves me, Thomas! - Does she say so? 584 00:43:11,924 --> 00:43:13,217 No. 585 00:43:13,300 --> 00:43:15,094 And yet she does where the ink has run with tears. 586 00:43:15,177 --> 00:43:18,013 Was she weeping when she gave you this? 587 00:43:19,348 --> 00:43:22,434 - Her letter came to me by the nurse. - Your aunt. 588 00:43:22,518 --> 00:43:24,019 Yes, my aunt. 589 00:43:25,396 --> 00:43:27,731 But perhaps she wept a little. 590 00:43:30,192 --> 00:43:32,361 Tell me how you love her, Will. 591 00:43:32,444 --> 00:43:35,781 Like a sickness and its cure together. 592 00:43:36,740 --> 00:43:38,158 Yes. 593 00:43:39,201 --> 00:43:40,911 Like rain and sun. 594 00:43:41,537 --> 00:43:43,455 Like cold and heat. 595 00:43:45,332 --> 00:43:47,293 Is your lady beautiful? 596 00:43:48,043 --> 00:43:52,047 Since I came here from the country, I have not seen her close. 597 00:43:52,631 --> 00:43:55,551 Tell me, is... Is she beautiful? 598 00:43:55,634 --> 00:43:59,638 Thomas, if I could write the beauty of her eyes, 599 00:43:59,722 --> 00:44:02,725 I was born to look in them and know myself. 600 00:44:04,643 --> 00:44:06,812 - And her lips? - Her lips? 601 00:44:07,396 --> 00:44:11,233 The early morning rose would wither on the branch if it could feel envy. 602 00:44:11,317 --> 00:44:14,403 And her voice, like lark song? 603 00:44:14,486 --> 00:44:17,823 Deeper, softer. None of your twittering larks. 604 00:44:17,906 --> 00:44:21,243 I would banish nightingales from her garden before they interrupt her song. 605 00:44:21,327 --> 00:44:23,746 - She sings, too? - Constantly. 606 00:44:23,829 --> 00:44:27,499 Without doubt. And plays the lute. She has a natural ear. 607 00:44:27,583 --> 00:44:31,670 And her bosom. Did I mention her bosom? 608 00:44:31,754 --> 00:44:33,422 What of her bosom? 609 00:44:33,505 --> 00:44:39,178 Thomas, a pair of pippins as round and rare as golden apples. 610 00:44:39,261 --> 00:44:42,514 I think milady is wise to keep your love at a distance. 611 00:44:42,598 --> 00:44:45,225 For what lady could live up to it, close to 612 00:44:45,309 --> 00:44:49,563 when her eyes and lips and voice may be no more beautiful than mine. 613 00:44:51,565 --> 00:44:53,025 Besides, can a... 614 00:44:53,108 --> 00:44:55,235 Can a lady of wealth and noble marriage 615 00:44:55,319 --> 00:44:59,031 love happily with a bankside poet and player? 616 00:44:59,114 --> 00:45:00,532 Yes, by God! 617 00:45:01,241 --> 00:45:03,952 Love knows nothing of rank or riverbank. 618 00:45:04,036 --> 00:45:07,498 It will spark between a queen and the poor vagabond who plays the king. 619 00:45:07,581 --> 00:45:09,583 And their love should be minded by each, 620 00:45:09,666 --> 00:45:12,211 for love denied, blights the soul we owe to God. 621 00:45:12,294 --> 00:45:15,631 So tell my lady William Shakespeare waits for her in the garden. 622 00:45:15,714 --> 00:45:17,341 But what of Lord Wessex? 623 00:45:17,424 --> 00:45:21,261 For one kiss, I would defy a thousand Wessexes. 624 00:45:29,478 --> 00:45:30,813 Will. 625 00:45:32,314 --> 00:45:34,108 Thank you, my lady. 626 00:45:36,485 --> 00:45:37,611 Lady? 627 00:45:37,694 --> 00:45:41,490 That's Viola De Lesseps. Known her since she was this high. 628 00:45:42,032 --> 00:45:44,159 Wouldn't deceive a child. 629 00:45:45,327 --> 00:45:48,497 Strangely enough, I'm a bit of a writer meself. 630 00:45:49,790 --> 00:45:52,292 It wouldn't take you long to read it. 631 00:45:52,376 --> 00:45:55,003 I expect you'd know all the booksellers! 632 00:46:04,179 --> 00:46:05,597 Can you love a fool? 633 00:46:06,432 --> 00:46:08,350 Can you love a player? 634 00:46:16,608 --> 00:46:17,776 Wait! 635 00:46:18,193 --> 00:46:22,531 You're still a maid, and perhaps as mistook in me as I was mistook in Thomas Kent. 636 00:46:22,614 --> 00:46:25,576 Are you the author of the plays of William Shakespeare? 637 00:46:25,659 --> 00:46:26,618 I am. 638 00:46:26,702 --> 00:46:29,621 Then kiss me again, for I am not mistook. 639 00:46:42,843 --> 00:46:45,220 I do not know how to undress a man. 640 00:46:45,304 --> 00:46:47,431 It is strange to me, too. 641 00:48:01,672 --> 00:48:03,173 Go to. Go to. 642 00:48:10,931 --> 00:48:13,141 I would not have thought it. 643 00:48:14,142 --> 00:48:16,853 There is something better than a play. 644 00:48:17,187 --> 00:48:18,522 There is. 645 00:48:19,898 --> 00:48:21,483 - Even your play. - Hmm... 646 00:48:24,570 --> 00:48:25,571 Huh? 647 00:48:27,614 --> 00:48:29,992 And that was only my first try. 648 00:48:51,179 --> 00:48:53,181 You would not leave me. 649 00:48:54,099 --> 00:48:57,352 I must. Look how pale the window. 650 00:48:57,686 --> 00:48:59,021 Moonlight. 651 00:48:59,855 --> 00:49:02,316 No. The morning rooster woke me. 652 00:49:02,941 --> 00:49:05,193 It was the owl. Come to bed. 653 00:49:07,696 --> 00:49:09,698 Let Henslowe wait. 654 00:49:12,868 --> 00:49:15,954 - Mr Henslowe? - Let him be damned for his pages. 655 00:49:16,038 --> 00:49:17,789 No, no, no. 656 00:49:18,540 --> 00:49:20,959 There is time! It is still dark. 657 00:49:21,043 --> 00:49:24,379 - It's broad day. The rooster tells us so. - It was the owl. 658 00:49:24,463 --> 00:49:27,132 Believe me, love, it was the owl. 659 00:49:28,342 --> 00:49:31,261 You would leave us players without a scene to read today? 660 00:49:35,766 --> 00:49:39,394 My lady? The house is stirring. It is a new day. 661 00:49:40,395 --> 00:49:42,189 It is a new world. 662 00:49:43,357 --> 00:49:45,859 Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, 663 00:49:45,942 --> 00:49:48,654 which mannerly devotion shows in this. 664 00:49:48,737 --> 00:49:52,074 For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, 665 00:49:52,157 --> 00:49:54,910 and palm to palm is holy Palmers' kiss. 666 00:49:55,452 --> 00:49:59,456 Have not saints lips, and holy Palmers, too? 667 00:49:59,539 --> 00:50:03,377 Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. 668 00:50:03,460 --> 00:50:07,005 O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. 669 00:50:07,089 --> 00:50:08,924 They pray, 670 00:50:09,007 --> 00:50:11,802 grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. 671 00:50:12,511 --> 00:50:15,931 Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. 672 00:50:17,808 --> 00:50:18,850 It's you. 673 00:50:18,934 --> 00:50:20,686 Suffering cats! 674 00:50:22,145 --> 00:50:26,441 Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. 675 00:50:31,905 --> 00:50:35,200 Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged. 676 00:50:35,283 --> 00:50:37,869 Then have my lips the sin that they have took. 677 00:50:37,953 --> 00:50:42,374 Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged. Give me my sin again. 678 00:50:42,457 --> 00:50:47,295 Yes, yes! Not quite right. It is more... Let me. 679 00:50:48,255 --> 00:50:50,382 Then have my lips the sin that they have took. 680 00:50:50,465 --> 00:50:55,095 Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged. Give me my sin again. 681 00:51:01,727 --> 00:51:06,148 - You kiss by the book. - Well, Will! It was lucky you were here. 682 00:51:06,231 --> 00:51:08,692 - Why do not I write the rest of your play... - Yes! 683 00:51:08,775 --> 00:51:11,653 Continue. Now the nurse. Where is Ralph? 684 00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,199 Madam, your mother craves a word with you. 685 00:51:18,910 --> 00:51:21,121 - What is her mother? - Marry, bachelor, 686 00:51:21,204 --> 00:51:24,332 her mother is the lady of the house, and a good lady, 687 00:51:24,416 --> 00:51:26,418 and a wise and virtuous. 688 00:51:26,501 --> 00:51:29,588 I nursed her daughter, that you talked withal. 689 00:51:29,671 --> 00:51:33,967 I tell you, he that can lay hold of her shall have the chinks. 690 00:51:34,050 --> 00:51:35,927 - Is she a Capulet? - Mmm. 691 00:51:36,595 --> 00:51:39,973 O dear account! My life is my foe's debt. 692 00:51:40,348 --> 00:51:43,143 Away. Begone. The sport is at the best. 693 00:51:43,226 --> 00:51:45,979 Ay, so I fear. The more is my unrest. 694 00:51:47,606 --> 00:51:50,859 Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman? 695 00:51:51,276 --> 00:51:53,820 The son and heir of old Tiberio. 696 00:51:54,863 --> 00:51:56,072 Let it be night. 697 00:51:56,156 --> 00:51:58,617 What's he that follows there, that would not dance? 698 00:51:58,700 --> 00:52:00,118 I know not. 699 00:52:00,202 --> 00:52:01,912 Go ask his name. 700 00:52:03,705 --> 00:52:06,875 If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed. 701 00:52:08,919 --> 00:52:10,337 No, do not go. 702 00:52:10,420 --> 00:52:12,464 I must. I must. 703 00:52:12,547 --> 00:52:14,424 RALPH The only son of your great enemy. 704 00:52:14,508 --> 00:52:15,592 Terrible. 705 00:52:15,675 --> 00:52:17,928 Simply terrible! 706 00:52:24,684 --> 00:52:28,563 "But, soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" 707 00:52:29,731 --> 00:52:32,901 "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." 708 00:52:34,152 --> 00:52:37,989 "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, 709 00:52:38,824 --> 00:52:41,618 who is already sick and pale with grief, 710 00:52:41,701 --> 00:52:45,413 that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she." 711 00:52:46,665 --> 00:52:49,334 - Will. - Yes, some of it's speakable. 712 00:52:49,417 --> 00:52:54,256 "It is my lady. O, it is my love! O, that she knew she were!" 713 00:52:54,923 --> 00:52:58,677 "The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, 714 00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,096 as daylight doth a lamp." 715 00:53:01,179 --> 00:53:06,560 Her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright 716 00:53:07,102 --> 00:53:10,564 that birds would sing and think it were not night. 717 00:53:11,648 --> 00:53:14,776 See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. 718 00:53:15,443 --> 00:53:20,532 O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek! 719 00:53:20,615 --> 00:53:22,117 Ay, me. 720 00:53:22,784 --> 00:53:25,328 "O Romeo, Romeo." 721 00:53:26,121 --> 00:53:28,540 "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" 722 00:53:28,623 --> 00:53:32,377 "Deny thy father and refuse thy name." 723 00:53:32,460 --> 00:53:35,505 Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, 724 00:53:36,131 --> 00:53:38,091 and I'll no longer be a Capulet. 725 00:53:38,174 --> 00:53:40,802 Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? 726 00:53:42,470 --> 00:53:45,056 "What man art thou that thus bescreened in night 727 00:53:45,140 --> 00:53:47,475 so stumblest on my counsel?" 728 00:53:48,059 --> 00:53:51,229 By a name I know not how to tell thee who I am. 729 00:53:51,730 --> 00:53:56,234 My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, because it is an enemy to thee. 730 00:53:56,318 --> 00:53:59,112 Had I it written, I would tear the word. 731 00:53:59,696 --> 00:54:03,241 "The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, 732 00:54:04,326 --> 00:54:07,370 and the place death, considering who thou art, 733 00:54:07,454 --> 00:54:09,915 if any of my kinsmen find thee here." 734 00:54:09,998 --> 00:54:13,209 "If they do see thee, they will murder thee." 735 00:54:13,293 --> 00:54:17,756 Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than 20 of their swords. 736 00:54:17,839 --> 00:54:21,801 Look thou but sweet, and I am proof against their enmity. 737 00:54:22,510 --> 00:54:24,304 I would not for the world they saw thee here. 738 00:54:24,387 --> 00:54:27,349 I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes. 739 00:54:27,432 --> 00:54:30,310 And but thou love me, let them find me here. 740 00:54:30,393 --> 00:54:32,979 "Good night. Good night." 741 00:54:33,063 --> 00:54:37,943 "As sweet repose and rest come to thy heart as that within my breast." 742 00:54:38,568 --> 00:54:40,946 "O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?" 743 00:54:41,029 --> 00:54:44,449 - That's my line. - It is mine, too. 744 00:54:44,532 --> 00:54:47,786 O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? 745 00:54:47,869 --> 00:54:50,121 What satisfaction canst thou have tonight? 746 00:54:50,205 --> 00:54:53,500 The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine. 747 00:54:54,042 --> 00:54:56,836 "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, 748 00:54:57,587 --> 00:54:59,673 my love as deep." 749 00:55:00,173 --> 00:55:02,550 "The more I give to thee, 750 00:55:02,634 --> 00:55:06,388 - the more I have, for both are infinite." - "...the more I have, for both are infinite." 751 00:55:08,515 --> 00:55:09,557 Madam? 752 00:55:09,891 --> 00:55:12,519 I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu. 753 00:55:12,602 --> 00:55:13,728 Juliet! 754 00:55:14,020 --> 00:55:17,148 - "Anon, good nurse." - Anon, good nurse. 755 00:55:17,232 --> 00:55:18,733 Sweet Montague, be true. 756 00:55:18,858 --> 00:55:21,695 "Stay but a little. I will come again." 757 00:55:21,778 --> 00:55:24,406 Stay but a little. I will come again. 758 00:55:24,489 --> 00:55:26,783 O blessed, blessed night. 759 00:55:28,743 --> 00:55:33,748 "I am afeared. Being in night, all this is but a dream, 760 00:55:35,667 --> 00:55:39,963 too flattering sweet to be substantial." 761 00:55:43,299 --> 00:55:46,011 To cease thy strife and leave me to my grief. 762 00:55:46,094 --> 00:55:47,929 A thousand times good night. 763 00:55:48,013 --> 00:55:50,223 A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. 764 00:55:50,306 --> 00:55:54,019 I cannot move in this dress. It makes me look like a pig. 765 00:55:55,186 --> 00:55:57,814 I've got no neck in this pig dress. 766 00:56:01,943 --> 00:56:04,279 - How is it? - It's all right. 767 00:56:08,992 --> 00:56:11,578 Ned, I know, I know. 768 00:56:11,995 --> 00:56:13,496 It's good. 769 00:56:14,164 --> 00:56:15,165 Huh? 770 00:56:15,790 --> 00:56:17,584 The title won't do. 771 00:56:18,418 --> 00:56:19,419 Ah? 772 00:56:19,502 --> 00:56:22,714 Romeo and Juliet. Just a suggestion. 773 00:56:25,133 --> 00:56:26,718 Thank you, Ned. 774 00:56:29,262 --> 00:56:33,183 - You are a gentleman. - And you are a Warwickshire shit-house. 775 00:56:33,266 --> 00:56:36,227 - What o'clock tomorrow shall I send to thee? - By the hour of nine. 776 00:56:36,311 --> 00:56:38,605 I shall not fail. 'Tis 20 years till then. 777 00:56:38,688 --> 00:56:40,356 I have forgot why I called thee back. 778 00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:43,610 - You mean no dog of any kind? - Shh. Silence. 779 00:56:44,778 --> 00:56:46,154 The friar marries them in secret, 780 00:56:46,237 --> 00:56:49,074 then Ned gets into a fight with one of the Capulets. 781 00:56:49,157 --> 00:56:53,328 Romeo tries to stop them and he gets in Ned's way. I mean, in Mercutio's way. 782 00:56:53,411 --> 00:56:56,623 So Tybalt kills Mercutio, then Romeo kills Tybalt. 783 00:56:56,706 --> 00:56:59,417 And then the prince banishes him from Verona. 784 00:56:59,501 --> 00:57:01,628 That must be when he goes on the voyage and gets shipwrecked 785 00:57:01,711 --> 00:57:03,254 on the island of the pirate king. 786 00:57:03,338 --> 00:57:07,133 For God's sake, cease your prattling and get out! 787 00:57:07,759 --> 00:57:09,052 Get out! 788 00:57:13,181 --> 00:57:15,058 A thousand apologies. 789 00:57:16,351 --> 00:57:17,602 Please. 790 00:57:19,312 --> 00:57:21,815 And with a silken thread plucks it back again, 791 00:57:21,898 --> 00:57:23,817 so loving-jealous of his liberty. 792 00:57:23,900 --> 00:57:25,735 I would I were thy bird. 793 00:57:25,819 --> 00:57:29,823 Sweet, so would I, yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. 794 00:57:30,573 --> 00:57:33,118 Good night. Good night. 795 00:57:33,743 --> 00:57:38,206 Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. 796 00:57:46,339 --> 00:57:47,590 Sunday. 797 00:57:49,217 --> 00:57:50,677 'Tis Sunday. 798 00:57:58,393 --> 00:58:00,728 I found something in my sleep. 799 00:58:01,229 --> 00:58:04,858 The friar who married them will take up their destinies. 800 00:58:05,525 --> 00:58:08,987 - But it will end well for love. - In heaven, perhaps. 801 00:58:09,487 --> 00:58:12,073 It is not a comedy I'm writing now. 802 00:58:14,117 --> 00:58:16,578 A broad river divides my lovers. 803 00:58:17,412 --> 00:58:20,081 Family, duty, fate. 804 00:58:23,209 --> 00:58:25,336 As unchangeable as nature. 805 00:58:26,171 --> 00:58:27,297 Yes. 806 00:58:29,340 --> 00:58:31,342 This is not life, Will. 807 00:58:32,468 --> 00:58:34,387 It is a stolen season. 808 00:58:35,138 --> 00:58:36,723 - Be patient, my lord. - Patient? 809 00:58:36,806 --> 00:58:40,268 - Do you ask Her Majesty to be patient? - My lord, I'll go... 810 00:58:41,186 --> 00:58:43,062 Sunday. Greenwich! 811 00:58:47,150 --> 00:58:48,860 Now, pay attention, nursie. 812 00:58:48,943 --> 00:58:51,571 The Queen, Gloriana Regina, 813 00:58:51,654 --> 00:58:55,033 God's chosen vessel, the radiant one who shines her light on us, 814 00:58:55,116 --> 00:58:58,203 is at Greenwich today, and prepared during the evening's festivities 815 00:58:58,286 --> 00:59:01,539 to bestow her gracious favour on my choice of wife. 816 00:59:01,623 --> 00:59:04,209 And if we're late for lunch, the old boot will not forgive! 817 00:59:04,292 --> 00:59:08,713 Get you to my lady's chamber and produce her with or without her undergarments! 818 00:59:08,796 --> 00:59:10,882 You cannot! Not for the Queen herself! 819 00:59:10,965 --> 00:59:13,927 What will you have me do? Marry you instead? 820 00:59:14,594 --> 00:59:16,888 To be the wife of a poor player. 821 00:59:16,971 --> 00:59:20,558 Can I wish that for Lady Viola except in my dreams? 822 00:59:21,100 --> 00:59:24,562 And yet I would, if I were free to follow my desire in the harsh light of day. 823 00:59:24,646 --> 00:59:27,315 You follow your desire freely enough in the night. 824 00:59:27,398 --> 00:59:30,985 - So, if that is all, to Greenwich I go. - Then I'll go with you. 825 00:59:31,069 --> 00:59:34,072 - You cannot. Wessex will kill you. - I know how to fight. 826 00:59:34,572 --> 00:59:35,823 Stage fighting. 827 00:59:36,824 --> 00:59:38,159 Oh, Will. 828 00:59:40,078 --> 00:59:45,750 As Thomas Kent, my heart belongs to you, but as Viola, the river divides us, 829 00:59:45,833 --> 00:59:48,920 and I must marry Wessex a week from Saturday. 830 00:59:50,672 --> 00:59:52,966 I'll drag her down by the Queen's command! 831 00:59:56,636 --> 00:59:57,887 Good morning, my lord. 832 00:59:57,971 --> 01:00:02,850 My lady. The tide waits for no man, but I swear it would wait for you. 833 01:00:03,017 --> 01:00:06,771 Here we come at last, my lord! 834 01:00:07,397 --> 01:00:08,940 Are you bringing your laundrywoman? 835 01:00:11,401 --> 01:00:14,112 Her chaperone, my lady's country cousin. 836 01:00:14,195 --> 01:00:19,534 My, but you be a handsome gallant, just as she said. 837 01:00:19,617 --> 01:00:21,577 You may call me Miss Wilhelmina. 838 01:00:21,661 --> 01:00:25,206 On a more fortuitous occasion, perhaps. 839 01:00:25,498 --> 01:00:28,209 Oh, my lord, you will not shake me off. 840 01:00:28,501 --> 01:00:32,422 She never needed me more. I swear by your britches. 841 01:01:06,039 --> 01:01:07,415 - Now? - Now. 842 01:01:08,041 --> 01:01:10,585 The Queen asks for you. Answer well. 843 01:01:13,963 --> 01:01:15,882 - Is there a man? - A man, my lord? 844 01:01:15,965 --> 01:01:19,260 There was a man, a poet. A theatre poet, I think. 845 01:01:19,969 --> 01:01:22,722 - Does he come to the house? - A theatre poet? 846 01:01:22,805 --> 01:01:26,476 An insolent penny-a-page rogue! Marlowe, he said. Christopher Marlowe. 847 01:01:26,559 --> 01:01:28,853 - Has he been to the house? - Marlowe? 848 01:01:28,936 --> 01:01:33,483 Oh, yes. He is the one. Lovely waistcoat. Shame about the poetry. 849 01:01:34,901 --> 01:01:36,235 That dog! 850 01:01:54,295 --> 01:01:55,797 Your Majesty. 851 01:01:56,506 --> 01:01:58,549 Stand up straight, girl. 852 01:02:02,678 --> 01:02:04,055 I've seen you. 853 01:02:05,014 --> 01:02:08,059 You are the one who comes to all the plays at Whitehall, at Richmond. 854 01:02:08,142 --> 01:02:09,644 Your Majesty. 855 01:02:11,813 --> 01:02:13,272 What do you love so much? 856 01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:17,568 - Your Majesty. - Speak up, girl! I know who I am. 857 01:02:18,653 --> 01:02:22,782 Do you love stories of kings and queens? Of feats of arms? 858 01:02:24,242 --> 01:02:27,286 - Or is it courtly love? - I love theatre. 859 01:02:28,371 --> 01:02:31,332 To have stories acted for me by a company of fellows is... 860 01:02:31,416 --> 01:02:35,044 They're not acted for you, they are acted for me. And? 861 01:02:36,838 --> 01:02:40,091 - And I love poetry above all. - Above Lord Wessex? 862 01:02:42,301 --> 01:02:45,888 My lord, when you can't find your wife you better look for her at the playhouse. 863 01:02:48,683 --> 01:02:51,686 Playwrights teach us nothing about love. 864 01:02:51,894 --> 01:02:55,523 They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust. 865 01:02:55,648 --> 01:02:58,109 - They cannot make it true. - But they can. 866 01:03:02,613 --> 01:03:07,493 I mean, Your Majesty, they do not, they have not, 867 01:03:07,577 --> 01:03:09,871 but I believe there is one who can. 868 01:03:11,205 --> 01:03:15,418 My Lady Viola is young in the world. Your Majesty is wise in it. 869 01:03:15,501 --> 01:03:19,464 Nature and truth are the very enemies of playacting. I'll wager my fortune. 870 01:03:19,547 --> 01:03:21,799 I thought you were here because you had none. 871 01:03:28,222 --> 01:03:31,976 - Well, no one will take your wager, it seems. - £50. 872 01:03:35,021 --> 01:03:36,522 £50? 873 01:03:38,900 --> 01:03:41,903 A very worthy sum on a very worthy question. 874 01:03:43,279 --> 01:03:46,657 Can a play show us the very truth and nature of love? 875 01:03:49,243 --> 01:03:51,746 I bear witness to the wager 876 01:03:52,079 --> 01:03:55,082 and will be the judge of it as occasion arises. 877 01:03:57,919 --> 01:04:00,171 I have seen nothing to settle it yet. 878 01:04:01,631 --> 01:04:03,966 Are there no more fireworks? 879 01:04:04,050 --> 01:04:08,346 They would be soothing after the excitements of Lady Viola's audience. 880 01:04:09,263 --> 01:04:12,183 Have her, then, but you are a lordly fool. 881 01:04:12,266 --> 01:04:15,728 She's been plucked since I saw her last, and not by you. 882 01:04:16,270 --> 01:04:18,564 It takes a woman to know it. 883 01:04:23,277 --> 01:04:24,862 Marlowe. 884 01:04:36,582 --> 01:04:37,708 Burbage? 885 01:04:39,544 --> 01:04:42,004 - Who's there? - Marlowe. 886 01:04:45,299 --> 01:04:47,385 You are playing my Dr. Faustus this afternoon. 887 01:04:47,468 --> 01:04:49,303 Don't spend yourself in sport. 888 01:04:49,512 --> 01:04:52,890 - What do you want, Kit? - My Massacre at Paris is complete. 889 01:04:52,974 --> 01:04:56,310 - What? You have the last act? - If you have the money. 890 01:04:56,852 --> 01:05:00,189 - Tomorrow. - Then tomorrow you shall have the pages. 891 01:05:00,523 --> 01:05:02,567 Will you desist, madam! 892 01:05:04,652 --> 01:05:09,031 - £20 on delivery. - Now, what is money to men like us? 893 01:05:10,283 --> 01:05:15,079 Besides, if I need a play, I have another waiting, a comedy by Shakespeare. 894 01:05:15,162 --> 01:05:16,372 Romeo. 895 01:05:16,455 --> 01:05:17,456 Mmm-hmm. 896 01:05:17,999 --> 01:05:20,418 - Gave it to Henslowe. - Never! 897 01:05:20,501 --> 01:05:23,588 Well, I'm to Deptford. I leave you my respects, Miss Rosaline. 898 01:05:23,671 --> 01:05:26,716 I gave Shakespeare two sovereigns for Romeo. 899 01:05:26,799 --> 01:05:27,842 You did, 900 01:05:27,925 --> 01:05:31,262 but Ned Alleyn and the Admiral's Men have the playing of it at the Rose. 901 01:05:31,929 --> 01:05:33,264 Treachery! 902 01:05:34,473 --> 01:05:36,183 Traitor and thief! 903 01:05:40,021 --> 01:05:42,940 Oh, no. No. 904 01:06:02,418 --> 01:06:06,881 - By my head, here comes the Capulets. - By my heel, I care not. 905 01:06:08,341 --> 01:06:10,176 Follow me close, for I will speak to them. 906 01:06:10,259 --> 01:06:13,554 Gentlemen, good den! A word with one of you. 907 01:06:14,055 --> 01:06:15,765 Are you going to do it like that? 908 01:06:16,265 --> 01:06:18,142 Positions. 909 01:06:18,225 --> 01:06:20,227 By my head, here comes the Capulets. 910 01:06:20,311 --> 01:06:22,313 By my heel, I care not. 911 01:06:22,396 --> 01:06:24,315 Follow me close. I will speak to them. 912 01:06:24,398 --> 01:06:27,443 Gentlemen, good den! A word with one of you. 913 01:06:29,111 --> 01:06:31,364 And but one word with one of us? 914 01:06:31,447 --> 01:06:34,200 Couple it with something. Make it a word and a blow. 915 01:06:34,283 --> 01:06:37,953 Where's that thieving hack that can't keep his pen in his ink pot? 916 01:06:38,037 --> 01:06:39,872 What is this rabble? 917 01:06:42,583 --> 01:06:44,543 Draw, if you be a man! 918 01:07:08,234 --> 01:07:10,152 Wonderful. Wonderful! 919 01:07:11,779 --> 01:07:13,531 And a dog. 920 01:07:16,450 --> 01:07:17,535 No! 921 01:07:18,953 --> 01:07:21,455 I prithee, players! Please! 922 01:07:22,790 --> 01:07:24,709 Not with my props! 923 01:07:26,168 --> 01:07:28,421 - Will! What... - A writers' quarrel. 924 01:07:29,755 --> 01:07:31,048 Quite normal. 925 01:07:33,134 --> 01:07:34,468 Stay hid. 926 01:07:48,274 --> 01:07:49,775 You are hurt. 927 01:08:03,164 --> 01:08:05,916 I dreamed last night of a shipwreck. 928 01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:11,005 - You were cast ashore in a far country. - Not yet. Not yet. 929 01:08:11,172 --> 01:08:13,924 We need that for the balcony scene. 930 01:08:14,008 --> 01:08:16,427 My investment! Lambert! 931 01:08:18,053 --> 01:08:19,472 Vengeance! 932 01:08:47,917 --> 01:08:53,172 A famous victory! Kegs and legs open, and on the house! 933 01:08:53,923 --> 01:08:56,008 What happy hour. 934 01:08:56,592 --> 01:08:58,886 - This is a tavern! - It is also a tavern. 935 01:08:58,969 --> 01:09:03,057 - I remember you. The poet! - Yes, William the Conqueror. 936 01:09:04,391 --> 01:09:06,727 One at a time. One at a time. 937 01:09:08,312 --> 01:09:12,483 He's a pretty one. Tell me your story while I tickle your fancy. 938 01:09:15,569 --> 01:09:19,448 - It's a house of ill repute. - It is, Thomas, but of good reputation. 939 01:09:19,532 --> 01:09:20,991 Come. There's no harm in a drink. 940 01:09:21,075 --> 01:09:26,914 You are welcome to my best house. Here's to the Admiral's Men. 941 01:09:27,748 --> 01:09:31,085 - The Admiral's Men! - The Admiral's Men! 942 01:09:54,441 --> 01:09:56,610 Well, I quite liked it. 943 01:09:57,319 --> 01:10:02,157 Master Kent, you have not yet dipped your wick. 944 01:10:04,368 --> 01:10:05,744 My wick? 945 01:10:07,288 --> 01:10:11,041 Mr Fennyman, because you love the theatre, you must have a part in my play. 946 01:10:11,125 --> 01:10:15,129 I am writing an apothecary, a small but vital role. 947 01:10:16,297 --> 01:10:18,924 My heavens. I thank you. 948 01:10:19,383 --> 01:10:23,971 - What's the play about, then? - Well, there's this nurse... 949 01:10:28,934 --> 01:10:31,061 Silence, silence, silence! 950 01:10:32,646 --> 01:10:34,315 Master Shakespeare 951 01:10:35,399 --> 01:10:38,819 has asked me to play the part of the apothecary. 952 01:10:41,196 --> 01:10:42,823 The apothecary? 953 01:10:43,490 --> 01:10:47,161 Will, what is this story? Where is the shipwreck? 954 01:10:47,620 --> 01:10:49,413 How does the comedy end? 955 01:10:49,496 --> 01:10:51,123 By God, I wish I knew. 956 01:10:51,206 --> 01:10:53,584 By God, if you do not, who does? 957 01:10:53,667 --> 01:10:57,338 Let us have pirates, clowns and a happy ending, 958 01:10:57,421 --> 01:11:00,424 or we shall send you back to Stratford to your wife. 959 01:11:18,275 --> 01:11:20,444 Will! Mr Henslowe! Gentlemen all! 960 01:11:20,527 --> 01:11:23,822 A black day for us all! There is news from a tavern in Deptford. 961 01:11:23,906 --> 01:11:25,282 Marlowe is dead. 962 01:11:31,121 --> 01:11:32,289 Stabbed. 963 01:11:33,332 --> 01:11:35,834 Stabbed to death in a tavern at Deptford. 964 01:11:40,506 --> 01:11:41,882 What have I done? 965 01:11:42,758 --> 01:11:46,887 He was the first man among us. A great light has gone out. 966 01:12:04,029 --> 01:12:05,406 Forgive me. 967 01:12:08,951 --> 01:12:10,577 God forgive me. 968 01:12:37,688 --> 01:12:39,982 Our Lord Jesus Christ's sake. 969 01:12:40,941 --> 01:12:43,527 One morning in the month of May 970 01:12:43,610 --> 01:12:46,113 From my cot I stray 971 01:12:46,613 --> 01:12:49,241 Just at the dawning of the day 972 01:12:49,324 --> 01:12:52,077 I met with a charming maid 973 01:12:54,121 --> 01:12:57,332 You look sad, my lady. Let me take you riding. 974 01:12:57,958 --> 01:13:01,295 - It's not my riding day, my lord. - Bless me, I thought it was a horse. 975 01:13:02,337 --> 01:13:05,466 - I'm going to church. - Of course. I understand. 976 01:13:05,799 --> 01:13:11,096 - It is to be expected. - Yes, it is to be expected on Sunday. 977 01:13:11,472 --> 01:13:13,307 And on a day of mourning. 978 01:13:14,892 --> 01:13:17,811 I never met the fellow but once at your house. 979 01:13:18,729 --> 01:13:19,938 Mourning? 980 01:13:23,108 --> 01:13:24,485 Who is dead, my lord? 981 01:13:25,235 --> 01:13:26,320 Oh. 982 01:13:26,403 --> 01:13:29,490 Dear God, I did not think it would be me to tell you. 983 01:13:30,199 --> 01:13:33,202 Great loss to playwriting and to dancing. 984 01:13:36,163 --> 01:13:37,414 My lady. 985 01:13:37,498 --> 01:13:40,584 - He is dead? - Killed last night in a tavern. 986 01:13:43,253 --> 01:13:45,172 Come then. We'll say a prayer for his soul. 987 01:14:29,883 --> 01:14:33,887 Spare me, dear ghost. Spare me, dear ghost. 988 01:14:35,055 --> 01:14:38,142 Spare me, for the love of Christ. Spare me! 989 01:14:52,197 --> 01:14:55,409 Will! My love. 990 01:14:57,119 --> 01:14:58,412 I thought you were dead. 991 01:15:03,625 --> 01:15:05,085 It is worse. 992 01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:08,755 I've killed a man. 993 01:15:12,926 --> 01:15:15,762 Marlowe's touch was in my Titus Andronicus, 994 01:15:15,846 --> 01:15:19,308 and my Henry VI was a house built on his foundations. 995 01:15:20,684 --> 01:15:24,313 - You never spoke so well of him. - He was not dead before. 996 01:15:27,107 --> 01:15:31,612 I would exchange all my plays to come for all of his that will never come. 997 01:15:32,654 --> 01:15:33,947 You lie. 998 01:15:36,450 --> 01:15:39,286 You lie by this river as you lied in my bed. 999 01:15:40,787 --> 01:15:42,539 My love is no lie. 1000 01:15:44,208 --> 01:15:45,626 I have a wife, yes, 1001 01:15:46,919 --> 01:15:50,130 and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. 1002 01:15:50,964 --> 01:15:53,926 You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, 1003 01:15:55,427 --> 01:15:59,264 - and yet, you let me come to your bed. - Calf-love. 1004 01:16:02,017 --> 01:16:05,354 I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet. 1005 01:16:06,939 --> 01:16:08,649 I was the more deceived. 1006 01:16:10,651 --> 01:16:14,821 Yes, you were deceived, for I did not know how much I loved you. 1007 01:16:18,283 --> 01:16:19,910 I love you, Will, 1008 01:16:21,662 --> 01:16:24,748 - beyond poetry. - My love. 1009 01:16:26,833 --> 01:16:29,920 - You ran from me before. - When I thought you dead, I did not care 1010 01:16:30,003 --> 01:16:32,339 about all the plays that would never come, 1011 01:16:32,422 --> 01:16:34,591 only that I would never see your face. 1012 01:16:35,509 --> 01:16:38,345 I saw our end, and it will come. 1013 01:16:39,596 --> 01:16:43,225 - You cannot marry Wessex. - If not you, why not Wessex? 1014 01:16:43,308 --> 01:16:45,769 If not Wessex, the Queen will know the cause, 1015 01:16:45,852 --> 01:16:48,605 - and there will be no more Will Shakespeare. - No. 1016 01:16:48,981 --> 01:16:49,982 No. 1017 01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:55,070 But I will go to Wessex as a widow from these vows, 1018 01:16:55,529 --> 01:16:58,407 as solemn as they are unsanctified. 1019 01:16:59,992 --> 01:17:02,536 For killing Juliet's kinsman Tybalt, 1020 01:17:03,370 --> 01:17:06,123 the one who killed Romeo's friend Mercutio, 1021 01:17:06,206 --> 01:17:09,918 Romeo is banished. But the friar who married Romeo and Juliet... 1022 01:17:10,002 --> 01:17:12,421 - Is that me, Will? - You, Edward. 1023 01:17:12,504 --> 01:17:15,882 The friar who married them gives Juliet a potion to drink. 1024 01:17:16,216 --> 01:17:19,386 It is a secret potion. It makes her seeming dead. 1025 01:17:19,886 --> 01:17:22,514 She is placed in the tomb of the Capulets. 1026 01:17:22,597 --> 01:17:25,976 She will awake to life and love when Romeo comes to her side again. 1027 01:17:28,979 --> 01:17:30,564 I have not said all. 1028 01:17:32,107 --> 01:17:36,236 By maligned fate, the message goes astray which would tell Romeo of the friar's plan. 1029 01:17:38,155 --> 01:17:40,198 He hears only that Juliet is dead. 1030 01:17:41,700 --> 01:17:44,828 - And thus he goes to the apothecary... - That's me. 1031 01:17:45,495 --> 01:17:47,581 ...and buys a deadly poison. 1032 01:17:48,290 --> 01:17:52,502 He enters the tomb to say farewell to Juliet who lies there cold as death. 1033 01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:55,797 He drinks the poison. 1034 01:17:57,299 --> 01:17:59,134 He dies by her side 1035 01:18:00,802 --> 01:18:03,430 and then she wakes and sees him dead. 1036 01:18:05,140 --> 01:18:07,434 And so Juliet takes his dagger 1037 01:18:09,561 --> 01:18:11,563 and kills herself. 1038 01:18:15,859 --> 01:18:18,320 Well, that will have them rolling in the aisles. 1039 01:18:18,403 --> 01:18:21,239 Sad and wonderful. 1040 01:18:22,783 --> 01:18:28,747 I have a blue velvet cap that'll do well. I've seen just such a cap on an apothecary. 1041 01:18:28,830 --> 01:18:30,123 Just so. 1042 01:18:31,583 --> 01:18:34,419 Yes, it will serve. 1043 01:18:36,922 --> 01:18:38,924 But there's a scene missing. 1044 01:18:39,883 --> 01:18:41,760 Between marriage and death? 1045 01:18:48,308 --> 01:18:49,518 The play 1046 01:18:51,186 --> 01:18:52,479 all written out for you. 1047 01:18:53,980 --> 01:18:58,235 I had the clerk at Bridewell do it. He has a good fist for lettering. 1048 01:19:01,488 --> 01:19:03,031 There is a new scene. 1049 01:19:10,038 --> 01:19:14,376 - Will you read in for me? - "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day." 1050 01:19:15,836 --> 01:19:19,631 "It was the nightingale, and not the lark, that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear." 1051 01:19:19,714 --> 01:19:24,845 "Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale." 1052 01:19:26,054 --> 01:19:31,268 "It was the lark, the herald of the morn, no nightingale." 1053 01:19:32,853 --> 01:19:38,650 "Look, love, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east." 1054 01:19:39,943 --> 01:19:42,279 "Night's candles are burnt out, 1055 01:19:43,780 --> 01:19:48,368 and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." 1056 01:19:49,703 --> 01:19:54,082 "I must be gone and live, or stay and die." 1057 01:19:55,959 --> 01:19:58,879 "Yon light is not daylight, I know it, I." 1058 01:20:00,046 --> 01:20:06,386 "It is some meteor that the sun exhales, to be to thee this night a torch-bearer, 1059 01:20:07,804 --> 01:20:10,390 to light thee on thy way to Mantua." 1060 01:20:12,726 --> 01:20:14,561 "Therefore stay yet." 1061 01:20:16,188 --> 01:20:18,732 "Thou need'st not to be gone." 1062 01:20:18,815 --> 01:20:22,861 "Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death." 1063 01:20:24,237 --> 01:20:27,532 "I am content, so thou wilt have it so." 1064 01:20:28,450 --> 01:20:32,537 "I have more care to stay than will to go." 1065 01:20:33,663 --> 01:20:37,542 "Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so." 1066 01:21:02,609 --> 01:21:04,653 You will go far, I fear. 1067 01:21:09,574 --> 01:21:11,493 I hope we work together again. 1068 01:21:14,246 --> 01:21:17,582 "Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law 1069 01:21:17,666 --> 01:21:21,711 is death... Death to any he that utters them." 1070 01:21:22,754 --> 01:21:25,090 Then him. Then me. 1071 01:21:25,715 --> 01:21:29,511 "Put this in any liquid thing you will and..." 1072 01:21:29,594 --> 01:21:32,180 What is it? What is it? 1073 01:21:34,474 --> 01:21:37,894 "How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, 1074 01:21:37,978 --> 01:21:39,896 - like softest music..." - Shakespeare! 1075 01:21:57,831 --> 01:22:03,461 Upstart inky pup! I'll show you your place, which is in hell! 1076 01:22:07,882 --> 01:22:11,219 - You're on my ground now! - By God, I'll fight the lot of you! 1077 01:22:11,303 --> 01:22:13,346 I am more than enough! 1078 01:22:21,146 --> 01:22:22,314 Move! 1079 01:23:45,271 --> 01:23:46,606 Absent friends. 1080 01:23:48,817 --> 01:23:50,985 This is the murderer of Kit Marlowe! 1081 01:23:52,779 --> 01:23:53,863 Will? 1082 01:23:53,947 --> 01:23:55,740 I rejoiced in his death because I thought it was yours! 1083 01:23:55,824 --> 01:23:57,409 That's all I know of Marlowe! 1084 01:23:57,951 --> 01:24:00,412 Will? It's true. 1085 01:24:01,496 --> 01:24:03,581 It was a tavern brawl. 1086 01:24:04,499 --> 01:24:08,128 Marlowe attacked and got his own knife in the eye. 1087 01:24:09,504 --> 01:24:15,051 - A quarrel about the bill. - The bill? Vanity, vanity! 1088 01:24:15,135 --> 01:24:17,137 Not the billing, the bill! 1089 01:24:22,642 --> 01:24:25,645 - Oh, God. I am free of it. - Where is she? 1090 01:24:28,148 --> 01:24:30,442 - Close it. - My Lord Wessex. 1091 01:24:30,525 --> 01:24:33,903 The Rose harbours the ass that shits on my name! 1092 01:24:33,987 --> 01:24:35,447 Take it down stone by stone. 1093 01:24:35,530 --> 01:24:38,992 I want it ploughed into the ground and sown with quicklime! 1094 01:24:39,909 --> 01:24:44,247 - Mr Tilney, what is this? - Sedition and indecency. 1095 01:24:44,330 --> 01:24:46,958 Master of the Revels, sir. She's over here. 1096 01:24:47,041 --> 01:24:48,835 - Where, boy? - There. 1097 01:24:50,128 --> 01:24:51,671 I saw her bubbies. 1098 01:24:51,963 --> 01:24:56,217 So, a woman on the stage! 1099 01:24:56,301 --> 01:25:00,305 A woman! I say this theatre is closed! 1100 01:25:01,055 --> 01:25:06,269 - Why, sir? - For lewdness and unshamedfacedness! 1101 01:25:06,352 --> 01:25:11,357 And for displaying a female on the public stage! 1102 01:25:26,539 --> 01:25:28,166 Not him, her! 1103 01:25:32,378 --> 01:25:33,588 That's who I meant. 1104 01:25:36,633 --> 01:25:39,052 - He's a woman. - This theatre is closed. 1105 01:25:41,346 --> 01:25:43,264 Notice will be posted! 1106 01:25:45,809 --> 01:25:47,894 Ned, I swear, I knew nothing of this. 1107 01:25:48,812 --> 01:25:49,813 Nobody knew. 1108 01:25:49,896 --> 01:25:52,482 He did. I saw him kissing her bubbies. 1109 01:25:56,569 --> 01:26:01,074 - It is over. - I'm so sorry, Mr Henslowe. 1110 01:26:16,714 --> 01:26:21,845 I wanted to be an actor. I'm so sorry, Will. 1111 01:26:28,393 --> 01:26:31,437 You were... 1112 01:26:33,940 --> 01:26:35,441 Wonderful. 1113 01:26:36,401 --> 01:26:37,777 Thank you. 1114 01:26:48,413 --> 01:26:51,708 "Put this in any liquid thing you will and..." 1115 01:26:58,089 --> 01:26:59,632 Everything all right? 1116 01:27:38,046 --> 01:27:39,923 I would've been good. 1117 01:27:41,382 --> 01:27:44,385 - I would've been great. - So would I. 1118 01:27:44,469 --> 01:27:46,012 We both would. 1119 01:28:09,202 --> 01:28:11,245 Lambert, kill him. 1120 01:28:13,915 --> 01:28:15,500 That can wait. 1121 01:28:19,087 --> 01:28:23,883 The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and pedlars of bombast. 1122 01:28:25,885 --> 01:28:28,304 But my father, James Burbage, 1123 01:28:28,388 --> 01:28:32,600 had the first licence to make a company of players from Her Majesty, 1124 01:28:32,684 --> 01:28:36,354 and he drew from poets the literature of the age. 1125 01:28:37,480 --> 01:28:39,732 We must show them that we are men of parts. 1126 01:28:41,109 --> 01:28:42,735 Will Shakespeare has a play. 1127 01:28:44,445 --> 01:28:47,949 I have a theatre. The Curtain is yours. 1128 01:29:22,692 --> 01:29:25,611 Will, we'll be needing a Romeo. 1129 01:29:32,618 --> 01:29:34,662 Oranges! Sweet oranges! 1130 01:30:02,648 --> 01:30:07,445 My ship is moored at Bankside, bound for Virginia on the afternoon tide. 1131 01:30:07,528 --> 01:30:10,740 Please do not weep, Lady De Lesseps. You are gaining a colony. 1132 01:30:10,823 --> 01:30:16,412 And you, my lord, are gaining £5,000 by these drafts in my hand. 1133 01:30:16,496 --> 01:30:20,625 Would you oblige me with 50 or so in gold just to settle my accounts at the dockside? 1134 01:30:23,836 --> 01:30:26,339 Ah! The bride! 1135 01:30:28,132 --> 01:30:30,051 Good morning, my lord. 1136 01:30:30,802 --> 01:30:34,972 I see you are open for business, so let's to church. 1137 01:30:41,062 --> 01:30:42,355 Be gone! 1138 01:31:40,288 --> 01:31:42,039 My lord! 1139 01:31:42,123 --> 01:31:44,625 - Be good to her, my lord. - I will. 1140 01:31:44,709 --> 01:31:46,460 God bless you! 1141 01:31:47,003 --> 01:31:49,839 Thank you. Let go. There's a good nurse. 1142 01:31:49,922 --> 01:31:55,845 The tide will not wait! Farewell! You'll all be welcome in Virginia! 1143 01:32:23,289 --> 01:32:28,544 Apples! Juicy apples! Buy my apples! 1144 01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:48,314 Is this all right? 1145 01:33:04,956 --> 01:33:09,669 Licentiousness is made a show! Vice is made a show! 1146 01:33:10,127 --> 01:33:14,548 Vanity and pride likewise made a show! 1147 01:33:14,632 --> 01:33:18,844 This is the very business of show! 1148 01:33:37,780 --> 01:33:39,949 "Two households." 1149 01:33:40,032 --> 01:33:42,618 - We're lost. - No, it will turn out well. 1150 01:33:42,702 --> 01:33:46,330 - How will it? - I don't know. It's a mystery. 1151 01:34:46,140 --> 01:34:51,437 Two households, both alike in dignity, 1152 01:34:52,813 --> 01:34:56,776 in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 1153 01:34:57,651 --> 01:35:00,654 from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, 1154 01:35:00,738 --> 01:35:03,991 where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 1155 01:35:04,075 --> 01:35:09,872 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, 1156 01:35:10,289 --> 01:35:13,167 whose misadventured piteous overthrows 1157 01:35:13,250 --> 01:35:16,462 doth with their death bury their parents' strife. 1158 01:35:19,632 --> 01:35:22,718 The which if you with patient ears attend, 1159 01:35:22,802 --> 01:35:27,139 what here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. 1160 01:35:34,146 --> 01:35:37,900 - Wonderful. - Was it good? 1161 01:35:42,029 --> 01:35:45,157 Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals. 1162 01:35:45,241 --> 01:35:48,244 No, for then we should be colliers. 1163 01:35:48,327 --> 01:35:50,746 I mean, an we be in choler... 1164 01:35:50,830 --> 01:35:53,082 - Master Shakespeare. - Luck be with you, Sam. 1165 01:35:53,999 --> 01:35:57,378 - Sam! - It's not my fault. I could do it yesterday. 1166 01:35:57,461 --> 01:35:59,839 Do me a speech. Do me a line. 1167 01:36:00,464 --> 01:36:02,133 "Parting is such sweet sorrow." 1168 01:36:03,217 --> 01:36:07,179 - Another little problem. - What do we do now? 1169 01:36:07,263 --> 01:36:11,100 - The show must... You know. - Go on! 1170 01:36:11,517 --> 01:36:14,186 Juliet does not come on for 20 pages. It will be all right. 1171 01:36:14,270 --> 01:36:17,106 - How will it? - I don't know. It's a mystery. 1172 01:36:21,652 --> 01:36:22,736 Let them begin. 1173 01:36:22,820 --> 01:36:24,655 I will frown as I pass by. 1174 01:36:24,738 --> 01:36:26,615 Let them take it as they list. 1175 01:36:26,699 --> 01:36:28,617 Nay, as they dare. 1176 01:36:28,701 --> 01:36:32,830 I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it. 1177 01:36:33,914 --> 01:36:36,250 Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? 1178 01:36:36,333 --> 01:36:38,544 I do bite my thumb, sir. 1179 01:36:39,086 --> 01:36:42,214 - Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? - Thank you. Excuse me. Excuse me. 1180 01:36:43,132 --> 01:36:44,967 - Can we talk? - Shh. 1181 01:36:45,050 --> 01:36:47,678 - We have no Juliet. - No Juliet? 1182 01:36:47,761 --> 01:36:50,681 - No Juliet? - It'll be all right, madam. 1183 01:36:50,764 --> 01:36:52,016 What happened to Sam? 1184 01:36:52,099 --> 01:36:54,185 - Who are you? - Thomas Kent. 1185 01:36:55,728 --> 01:36:56,896 Do you know it? 1186 01:36:58,856 --> 01:37:00,107 Every word. 1187 01:37:10,117 --> 01:37:12,995 I'll go along, no such sight to be shown, 1188 01:37:13,078 --> 01:37:15,998 but to rejoice in splendour of mine own. 1189 01:37:17,791 --> 01:37:19,001 Nurse, 1190 01:37:21,545 --> 01:37:24,548 where's my daughter? Call her forth to me. 1191 01:37:24,632 --> 01:37:27,885 Now, by my maidenhead, at 12 years old, 1192 01:37:27,968 --> 01:37:29,053 I bade her come. 1193 01:37:29,136 --> 01:37:31,680 "How now! Who calls? How now..." 1194 01:37:32,515 --> 01:37:36,769 What, ladybird! God forbid! Where's this girl? 1195 01:37:37,603 --> 01:37:40,856 What, lamb! What, ladybird! 1196 01:37:43,025 --> 01:37:45,236 What, Juliet! 1197 01:37:46,153 --> 01:37:47,947 How now! Who calls? 1198 01:37:53,702 --> 01:37:56,872 - We'll all be put in the Clink. - See you in jail. 1199 01:38:00,376 --> 01:38:03,504 - Your mother. - Your mother. 1200 01:38:03,629 --> 01:38:06,799 Madam, I am here. What is your will? 1201 01:38:07,216 --> 01:38:09,134 This is the matter. 1202 01:38:09,218 --> 01:38:11,637 Nurse, give leave awhile. We must talk in secret. 1203 01:38:12,304 --> 01:38:16,183 Nurse, come back again. I have remembered me, thou's hear our counsel. 1204 01:38:16,267 --> 01:38:19,895 Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age. 1205 01:38:19,979 --> 01:38:22,398 Faith, I know her age unto an hour. 1206 01:38:22,481 --> 01:38:23,607 She's not 14. 1207 01:38:24,108 --> 01:38:27,111 I'll lay 14 of my teeth. 1208 01:38:27,194 --> 01:38:30,614 And yet to my teen be it spoken I have but four. 1209 01:38:54,388 --> 01:38:55,973 Tell me, daughter Juliet, 1210 01:38:56,056 --> 01:38:59,268 how stands your disposition to be married? 1211 01:39:00,811 --> 01:39:03,522 It is an honour that I dream not of. 1212 01:39:06,734 --> 01:39:07,735 Benvolio! 1213 01:39:09,987 --> 01:39:10,988 Good Mercutio! 1214 01:39:20,873 --> 01:39:22,166 I am sped. 1215 01:39:22,249 --> 01:39:24,960 Courage, man, the hurt cannot be much. 1216 01:39:25,878 --> 01:39:29,548 Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. 1217 01:39:48,108 --> 01:39:52,321 "Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law 1218 01:39:52,404 --> 01:39:55,491 is death to any he that utters them." 1219 01:39:55,574 --> 01:39:57,910 Then him. Then me. 1220 01:40:06,460 --> 01:40:08,587 Romeo, away! Be gone! 1221 01:40:08,671 --> 01:40:12,424 The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. Stand not amazed. 1222 01:40:13,258 --> 01:40:17,304 The prince will doom thee death if thou art taken. Hence! Be gone! Away! 1223 01:40:18,430 --> 01:40:20,933 O, I am fortune's fool. 1224 01:40:21,433 --> 01:40:23,018 Why dost thou stay? 1225 01:40:24,395 --> 01:40:26,021 Which way ran he that killed Mercutio? 1226 01:40:26,105 --> 01:40:27,356 Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he? 1227 01:40:27,439 --> 01:40:28,691 There lies that Tybalt. 1228 01:40:28,774 --> 01:40:30,025 Up, sir, go with me. 1229 01:40:30,109 --> 01:40:31,860 I charge thee in the prince's name, obey. 1230 01:40:31,944 --> 01:40:34,988 Where are the vile beginners of this fray? 1231 01:40:35,072 --> 01:40:37,199 O, I am fortune's fool. 1232 01:40:40,661 --> 01:40:42,204 You are married? 1233 01:40:46,625 --> 01:40:50,462 If you be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed. 1234 01:41:06,603 --> 01:41:08,313 Art thou gone so? 1235 01:41:11,525 --> 01:41:15,612 Love, lord, ay, husband, friend. 1236 01:41:16,905 --> 01:41:19,908 I must hear from thee every day in the hour, 1237 01:41:20,909 --> 01:41:23,787 for in a minute there are many days. 1238 01:41:24,204 --> 01:41:29,334 O, by this count I shall be much in years ere I again behold my Romeo! 1239 01:41:30,878 --> 01:41:32,045 Farewell! 1240 01:41:33,547 --> 01:41:36,341 O think'st thou we shall ever meet again? 1241 01:41:39,011 --> 01:41:44,016 Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. 1242 01:41:45,100 --> 01:41:48,854 Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. 1243 01:41:50,939 --> 01:41:54,943 And trust me, love, in my eye so do you. 1244 01:41:56,195 --> 01:41:58,405 Dry sorrow drinks our blood. 1245 01:42:05,204 --> 01:42:07,956 Take thou this vial, being then in bed, 1246 01:42:08,123 --> 01:42:11,210 and this distilled liquor drink thou off. 1247 01:42:11,502 --> 01:42:15,464 No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest, 1248 01:42:15,547 --> 01:42:18,425 and in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death 1249 01:42:18,509 --> 01:42:21,637 thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours, 1250 01:42:21,720 --> 01:42:24,515 and then awake as from a pleasant sleep. 1251 01:42:25,641 --> 01:42:27,559 What, ho! Apothecary! 1252 01:42:31,146 --> 01:42:34,775 Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor. 1253 01:42:35,317 --> 01:42:37,903 Hold, there is 40 ducats. 1254 01:42:38,654 --> 01:42:41,573 - Let me have a dram of poison. - Such mortal drugs I have, 1255 01:42:41,657 --> 01:42:45,744 but Mantua's law is death to any he that utters them. 1256 01:42:46,245 --> 01:42:49,414 - Art thou so... - My poverty, but not my will, consents. 1257 01:42:55,128 --> 01:42:57,589 I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. 1258 01:43:01,802 --> 01:43:03,720 Eyes, look your last! 1259 01:43:04,388 --> 01:43:10,477 Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you 1260 01:43:11,144 --> 01:43:15,148 the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss 1261 01:43:17,442 --> 01:43:21,446 a dateless bargain to engrossing death! 1262 01:43:23,282 --> 01:43:29,246 Come, bitter conduct. Come, unsavoury guide! 1263 01:43:29,997 --> 01:43:34,001 Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on 1264 01:43:34,084 --> 01:43:38,380 the dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! 1265 01:43:38,881 --> 01:43:40,632 Here's to my love! 1266 01:43:48,473 --> 01:43:52,144 O true apothecary! 1267 01:43:55,981 --> 01:43:57,816 Thy drugs are quick. 1268 01:44:03,697 --> 01:44:05,490 Thus with a kiss 1269 01:44:07,993 --> 01:44:09,161 I die. 1270 01:44:27,930 --> 01:44:29,681 Where is my lord? 1271 01:44:31,892 --> 01:44:36,063 I do remember well where I should be, and there I am. Where is my Romeo? 1272 01:44:36,229 --> 01:44:37,397 Dead! 1273 01:44:50,786 --> 01:44:55,040 What's this? A cup, closed in my true love's hand? 1274 01:44:58,460 --> 01:45:01,380 Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. 1275 01:45:07,386 --> 01:45:09,388 O happy dagger! 1276 01:45:10,555 --> 01:45:12,349 This is thy sheath. 1277 01:45:16,603 --> 01:45:20,399 There rust, and let me die. 1278 01:45:28,031 --> 01:45:31,118 A glooming peace this morning with it brings. 1279 01:45:31,785 --> 01:45:34,746 The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. 1280 01:45:36,206 --> 01:45:40,127 Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. 1281 01:45:41,420 --> 01:45:45,799 Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. 1282 01:45:46,883 --> 01:45:50,429 For never was a story of more woe 1283 01:45:51,096 --> 01:45:55,934 than this of Juliet and her Romeo. 1284 01:46:25,005 --> 01:46:26,423 Bravo! 1285 01:47:36,368 --> 01:47:37,953 - God save the Queen! - God save the Queen! 1286 01:47:38,036 --> 01:47:40,372 I arrest you in the name of Queen Elizabeth! 1287 01:47:40,956 --> 01:47:46,253 - Arrest who, Mr Tilney? - Everyone! 1288 01:47:47,170 --> 01:47:50,090 Admiral's Men, the Chamberlain's Men 1289 01:47:50,215 --> 01:47:54,386 and every one of you ne'er-do-wells that stand in contempt 1290 01:47:54,469 --> 01:47:57,848 of the authority vested in me by Her Majesty! 1291 01:47:57,931 --> 01:48:01,977 Contempt? You closed the Rose. I have not opened it. 1292 01:48:02,394 --> 01:48:04,479 That woman is a woman! 1293 01:48:05,772 --> 01:48:09,734 What? A woman? You mean that goat? 1294 01:48:10,193 --> 01:48:15,615 I'll see you all in Clink, in the name of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth! 1295 01:48:15,699 --> 01:48:17,117 Mr Tilney! 1296 01:48:24,916 --> 01:48:27,586 Have a care with my name. You will wear it out. 1297 01:48:36,011 --> 01:48:40,390 The queen of England does not attend exhibitions of public lewdness. 1298 01:48:41,099 --> 01:48:43,226 So something is out of joint. 1299 01:48:45,854 --> 01:48:48,940 Come here, Master Kent. Let me look at you. 1300 01:49:04,122 --> 01:49:06,291 Yes, the illusion is remarkable. 1301 01:49:07,209 --> 01:49:09,878 And your error, Mr Tilney, is easily forgiven. 1302 01:49:11,588 --> 01:49:14,257 But I know something of a woman in a man's profession. 1303 01:49:15,342 --> 01:49:17,886 Yes, by God, I do know about that. 1304 01:49:20,138 --> 01:49:22,849 That is enough from you, Master Kent. 1305 01:49:27,979 --> 01:49:31,107 - If only Lord Wessex were here. - He is, ma'am. 1306 01:49:36,905 --> 01:49:38,323 Your Majesty. 1307 01:49:39,658 --> 01:49:41,701 There was a wager I remember 1308 01:49:42,661 --> 01:49:46,331 as to whether a play could show the very truth and nature of love. 1309 01:49:47,791 --> 01:49:49,542 I think you lost it today. 1310 01:49:55,090 --> 01:49:58,301 You are an eager boy. Did you like the play? 1311 01:49:58,969 --> 01:50:01,805 I liked it when she stabbed herself, Your Majesty. 1312 01:50:08,645 --> 01:50:10,438 Master Shakespeare. 1313 01:50:13,650 --> 01:50:16,403 Next time you come to Greenwich, come as yourself, 1314 01:50:17,862 --> 01:50:19,698 and we will speak some more. 1315 01:50:37,173 --> 01:50:38,675 Your Majesty. 1316 01:50:41,553 --> 01:50:45,348 Why, Lord Wessex. Lost your wife so soon? 1317 01:50:45,765 --> 01:50:47,892 Indeed I am a bride short, 1318 01:50:48,351 --> 01:50:51,563 and my ship sails for the new world on the evening tide. 1319 01:50:53,773 --> 01:50:55,275 How is this to end? 1320 01:50:55,859 --> 01:51:00,238 As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey. 1321 01:51:02,282 --> 01:51:06,077 Those whom God has joined in marriage not even I can put asunder. 1322 01:51:08,330 --> 01:51:09,706 Master Kent. 1323 01:51:15,920 --> 01:51:19,382 Lord Wessex, as I foretold, has lost his wife in the playhouse. 1324 01:51:21,593 --> 01:51:24,387 Go make your farewell and send her out. 1325 01:51:25,513 --> 01:51:27,098 It's time to settle accounts. 1326 01:51:30,518 --> 01:51:32,937 - How much was that wager? - Fifty shillings. 1327 01:51:35,398 --> 01:51:36,608 Pounds. 1328 01:51:37,942 --> 01:51:41,363 Give it to Master Kent. He will see it rightfully home. 1329 01:51:50,663 --> 01:51:54,042 Tell Master Shakespeare something more cheerful next time 1330 01:51:54,125 --> 01:51:55,919 for Twelfth Night. 1331 01:52:14,229 --> 01:52:15,563 Too late. Too late. 1332 01:52:26,324 --> 01:52:27,992 My Lady Wessex. 1333 01:52:43,508 --> 01:52:45,593 A hired player no longer. 1334 01:52:47,262 --> 01:52:51,015 £50, Will, for the poet of true love. 1335 01:52:52,976 --> 01:52:54,811 I'm done with theatre. 1336 01:52:56,729 --> 01:53:00,900 The playhouse is for dreamers. Look what the dream brought us. 1337 01:53:03,027 --> 01:53:05,113 It was we ourselves did that. 1338 01:53:06,865 --> 01:53:10,702 And for my life to come, I would not have it otherwise. 1339 01:53:11,661 --> 01:53:14,372 I have hurt you, and I'm sorry for it. 1340 01:53:15,957 --> 01:53:21,379 If my hurt is to be that you write no more, then I shall be the sorrier. 1341 01:53:27,635 --> 01:53:32,515 The Queen commands a comedy, Will, for Twelfth Night. 1342 01:53:32,599 --> 01:53:33,850 A comedy. 1343 01:53:35,518 --> 01:53:37,479 What would my hero be? 1344 01:53:37,562 --> 01:53:40,940 The saddest wretch in all the kingdom, sick with love? 1345 01:53:43,276 --> 01:53:44,986 It's a beginning. 1346 01:53:46,821 --> 01:53:50,909 Let him be a duke, and your heroine... 1347 01:53:50,992 --> 01:53:54,204 Sold in marriage and halfway to America. 1348 01:53:55,914 --> 01:53:57,415 At sea, then. 1349 01:53:58,750 --> 01:54:02,837 - A voyage to a new world. - A storm. All are lost. 1350 01:54:02,921 --> 01:54:08,968 She lands on a vast and empty shore. 1351 01:54:11,387 --> 01:54:13,348 She's brought to the duke, 1352 01:54:14,891 --> 01:54:17,602 - Orsino. - Orsino? 1353 01:54:19,604 --> 01:54:20,939 Good name. 1354 01:54:21,022 --> 01:54:25,443 But fearful of her virtue, she comes to him dressed as a boy. 1355 01:54:26,861 --> 01:54:29,197 And thus is unable to declare her love. 1356 01:54:31,491 --> 01:54:33,660 But all ends well. 1357 01:54:34,410 --> 01:54:38,081 - How does it? - I don't know. 1358 01:54:39,874 --> 01:54:41,543 It's a mystery. 1359 01:54:49,801 --> 01:54:54,639 You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die. 1360 01:54:56,808 --> 01:54:58,351 Nor you for me. 1361 01:55:00,812 --> 01:55:02,021 Goodbye, my love. 1362 01:55:03,815 --> 01:55:05,942 A thousand times goodbye. 1363 01:55:11,447 --> 01:55:12,574 Write me well. 1364 01:55:45,440 --> 01:55:47,650 My story starts at sea, 1365 01:55:48,985 --> 01:55:51,988 a perilous voyage to an unknown land. 1366 01:55:53,656 --> 01:55:55,116 A shipwreck. 1367 01:55:58,620 --> 01:56:02,040 The wild waters roar and heave. 1368 01:56:03,541 --> 01:56:07,045 The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, 1369 01:56:09,756 --> 01:56:14,177 and all the helpless souls within her drowned. 1370 01:56:18,514 --> 01:56:20,016 All save one, 1371 01:56:21,976 --> 01:56:23,311 a lady 1372 01:56:25,480 --> 01:56:28,066 whose soul is greater than the ocean 1373 01:56:29,942 --> 01:56:33,446 and her spirit, stronger than the sea's embrace. 1374 01:56:36,366 --> 01:56:38,451 Not for her a watery end, 1375 01:56:41,204 --> 01:56:45,041 but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. 1376 01:56:49,504 --> 01:56:51,589 It will be a love story 1377 01:56:56,219 --> 01:56:59,389 for she will be my heroine for all time. 1378 01:57:02,934 --> 01:57:06,437 And her name will be Viola. 102259