Shakespeare in Love | 1998

Clip Name: The-True-Nature-Of-Love

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  • Character
    Quote
  • Unknown

    My lord, when you cannot find your wife,

    you better look for her at the playhouse.

  • Queen Elizabeth

    Playwrights teach us nothing about love.

  • Unknown

    They make it pretty; they make it comical; or they make it lust.

  • Queen Elizabeth

    They cannot make it true.

  • Viola De Lesseps

    Oh, but they can.

  • Unknown

    I mean, Your Majesty, they- they do not, they have... not,

    but I believe there is one who can.

    My Lady Viola is young in the world.

    Your Majesty is wise in it.

    Nature and truth are the very enemies of playacting. I'll wager my fortune.

    I thought you were here because you had none.

    Well, no one will take your wager, it seems.

    Fifty pounds.

    Fifty pounds?

  • Queen Elizabeth

    A very worthy sum on a very worthy question.

    Can a play show us the very truth and nature of love?

  • Unknown

    I bear witness to the wager...

  • Queen Elizabeth

    and will be the judge of it as occasion arises.

    I have seen nothing to settle it yet.

  • Unknown

    Are there no more fireworks?

    They would be soothing after the excitements of Lady Viola's audience.

  • Queen Elizabeth

    Have her, then, but you are a lordly fool.

    She's been plucked since I saw her last, and not by you.

    It takes a woman to know it.

  • Unknown

    Marlowe.

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