Although this movie was mostly based and cenetered around Shakespeare's love interest, Viola Le Lesseps, the Queen Elizabeth, herself, still managed to make a large impact within the story line. Her air of authority and the power she held and emitted made her into and admirable entity, not only in my eyes, but the characters of the film. Judi Dench, who played an older queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare In Love, did a wonderful job in …showed first 75 words of 376 total…

…showed last 75 words of 376 total…especially when I noticed the little added hints and jokes of Shakespeare's other plays within the movie, like the character who was holding the skull. It quickly reminded me of the graveyard scene in Hamlet. The movie gave me a better understanding of Elizabethan times with the language they used. It just made it easier to comprehend, yet it still managed to keep that ancient feel of that powerful era in which Queen Elizabeth ruled.