As the company rehearses his new play, Will and Viola’s love is transferred to the written page leading to the masterpiece that is Romeo and Juliet. High resolution official theatrical movie poster (1 of 4) for Shakespeare in Love (1998). Shakespeare soon sees through her disguise and they begin a love affair, one they know cannot end happily for them as he is already married and she has been promised to the dour Lord Wessex. Dressing as a man and going by the name of Thomas Kent, she auditions and is ideal for a part in his next play. She is also a great admirer of Shakespeare’s works. She loves the theatre and would like nothing more than to take to the stage but is forbidden from doing so as only men can be actors. Nonetheless, creativity is the outcome of falling in love and this feeling transcends over drama, over the writer’s block, over gender discrimination in theater and. He is in search of his muse, the woman who will inspire him but all attempts fail him until he meets the beautiful Viola de Lesseps. In Shakespeare in Love, creativity is a subject treated with great significance, as this is the source of tragism that characterizes its Romeo and Juliet playwright. Will Shakespeare is a known but struggling poet, playwright and actor who not only has sold his next play to both Philip Henslow and Richard Burbidge but now faces a far more difficult problem: he is bereft of ideas and has yet to begin writing.