The Film Shakespeare in Love gives a realistic portrayal of sixteenth century life while also appealing directly to a modern cinema audience. Discuss how the makers of the film successfully combine these two elements.

... The Film Shakespeare in Love gives a realistic portrayal of sixteenth century life while also appealing directly to a modern cinema audience. Discuss how the makers of the film successfully combine these two elements. The makers of the film Shakespeare in Love aimed to create a realistic yet dramatic portrayal of the life of Shakespeare, while still appealing to modern audience. To do this they have combined contemporary elements of romance and humour, and to appeal to a wide audience they added intertexuality and well known cast members. However they have tried to remain true to the main elements of Shakespeare's life and make the sixteenth century London setting as authentic as possible. The conflict between these two elements is that the audience may perceive the subject matter (Shakespeare's life) to be a specialist topic. This meant that the main difficulty in the production of the film was to make a

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