Editing Shakespeare in Love (section)

==Reception==
===Box office===
''Shakespeare in Love'' was among [[List of 1999 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom|1999's box office number-one films in the United Kingdom]]. The U.S. and Canadian box office reached over $100 million and in the U.K. it grossed $34 million; including the box office from the rest of the world, the film took in over $289 million.<ref name="BOM">[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shakespeareinlove.htm "Shakespeare in Love (1998)"]. ''[[Box Office Mojo]]''. [[IMDb]]. Retrieved 19 February 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=31 March 2000|page=35|title=Beauty gains from Oscar buzz|last=Scott|first=Mary}}</ref>

===Critical reception===
[[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives ''Shakespeare in Love'' a 92% approval rating based on 141 critical reviews, averaging 8.30/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Endlessly witty, visually rapturous, and sweetly romantic, ''Shakespeare in Love'' is a delightful romantic comedy that succeeds on nearly every level."<ref>{{cite web|title=''Shakespeare in Love'' (1998)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shakespeare_in_love/|access-date=16 July 2021|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media]]}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film holds a score of 87 out of 100 based on 33 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/shakespeare-in-love |title=''Shakespeare in Love'' Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=27 February 2018}}</ref>

[[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' made the film an "NYT Critics' Pick", calling it "pure enchantment". According to Maslin, "Gwyneth Paltrow, in her first great, fully realized starring performance, makes a heroine so breathtaking that she seems utterly plausible as the playwright's guiding light."<ref name="NYT1998">{{cite web |date=11 December 1998 |author=Maslin, Janet |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B05E4D9103AF932A25751C1A96E958260 |title=Shakespeare Saw a Therapist? |access-date=16 February 2012}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]], who gave the film four stars out of four, wrote: "The contemporary feel of the humor (like Shakespeare's coffee mug, inscribed 'Souvenir of Stratford-Upon-Avon') makes the movie play like a contest between ''[[Masterpiece Theatre]]'' and [[Mel Brooks]]. Then the movie stirs in a sweet love story, juicy court intrigue, backstage politics and some lovely moments from ''Romeo and Juliet''...&nbsp;Is this a movie or an [[anthology]]? I didn't care. I was carried along by the wit, the energy and a surprising sweetness."<ref name="Ebert">{{cite web |title=Shakespeare in Love |author=Ebert, Roger |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=25 December 1998 |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19981225/REVIEWS/812250306/1023 |access-date=16 February 2012}}</ref>

Filmmaker [[David Cronenberg]] was critical of the film stating that it "really annoyed me" as it was "deconstructionist film-making, but it's also just ''Romeo and Juliet'' again".{{sfn|Cronenberg|2006|p=122}}

''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' claimed that the film prompted the revival of the title of [[Earl of Wessex]]. [[Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Edward]] was originally to have been titled [[Duke of Cambridge]] following his marriage to [[Sophie Rhys-Jones]] in 1999, the year after the film's release. However, after watching ''Shakespeare in Love'', he reportedly became attracted to the title of the character played by Colin Firth, and asked his mother [[Queen Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth&nbsp;II]] to be given the title of Earl of Wessex instead.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8196402/Royal-wedding-Prince-William-asks-the-Queen-not-to-make-him-a-duke.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8196402/Royal-wedding-Prince-William-asks-the-Queen-not-to-make-him-a-duke.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Royal wedding: Prince William asks the Queen not to make him a duke |author=Richard Eden |date=12 December 2010 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=12 December 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref>