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Claire North

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From one of the most original new voices in modern fiction comes a startling vision of a world where...

Literary Fiction

There Will Be Lies

Nick Lake

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In four hours, Shelby Jane Cooper will be struck by a car. Shortly after, she and her mother will...

Kingdom of Sand & Wishes: A Limited Edition Collection of Aladdin Retellings

Various Authors

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Aladdin, but not as you remember it…. On the dusty streets, around the bustling bazaars, being...

Romance adventure YA young adult fiction fantasy

Odin's Ravens (second edition)

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Tabletop Game

Every morning Odin sends his ravens, Huginn and Muninn, across the entire world to bring back news...

Medusa: The Girl Behind The Myth

Jessie Burton and Olivia Lomenech Gill (illustrator)

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A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The...

Greek Mythology Feminism

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Oct 19, 2025

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

1998 | Comedy, History, Romance

6.8

(11 Ratings)

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Award-winning 1998 film (supposedly) telling the story of how Shakespeare - here, suffering from writers block - came to write the tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet' (which, here, starts life as 'Romeo and Ethel the Pirate King's daughter'), as well as where he gets inspiration for several of his other plays from.

Whilst this is a bit slow starting, it gets better once the plot starts moving, roughly half an hour or so into it, with the introduction of (a very young) Gwyneth Paltrow as Lady Viola who - in the best traditions of Shakespeare - wants to become an actor herself, a role forbidden to females of the time, and so is forced to 'go undercover', pretending to be a young man.

Sound familiar?

It's a plot device Shakespeare would return to, time and time again.