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BY ROSIE DAY

Rappahannock News

Contributing Writer

Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, “Shakespeare in Love” is a fanciful account of the great bard’s enormous artistic leap from obscure actor to renowned playwright with his masterpiece, “Romeo and Juliet”, first performed in 1594.

The movie begins with young Will Shakespeare racing around rat-infested London, flinging himself into rooms in despair. It seems he has writer’s block: he cannot complete the pot boiler, “Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter.”

Will pulls out of his depression when he meets Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), a wealthy girl doomed to marry the unappealing and impoverished

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