Anonymous

William... 646 00:39:42,839 --> 00:39:44,339 Shake... 647 00:39:44,841 --> 00:39:46,467 Speare. 648 00:39:50,346 --> 00:39:52,097 My lady. 649 00:39:56,770 --> 00:40:00,189 Who was that man? I've seen him here before. 650 00:40:03,902 --> 00:40:05,069 Edward. 651 00:40:05,236 --> 00:40:08,197 We must discuss our daughter's dowry. 652 00:40:08,364 --> 00:40:10,032 Dowry? She cannot marry 653 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,869 without a dowry becoming to the daughter of the Earl of Oxford. 654 00:40:14,037 --> 00:40:16,330 I can give her Brooke House and 100 pounds. 655 00:40:16,498 --> 00:40:18,999 A hundred pounds, Father? Mother? 656 00:40:19,167 --> 00:40:21,335 That is all we have to give at the moment. 657 00:40:21,503 --> 00:40:22,544 Leave us, Bridget. 658 00:40:26,716 --> 00:40:28,926 Edward, our family 659 00:40:29,094 --> 00:40:31,762 is in financial ruins, and you... 660 00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:33,639 You... 661 00:40:33,807 --> 00:40:36,016 play the flute while Rome burns. 662 00:40:36,184 --> 00:40:39,228 Nero fiddled whilst Rome burned. 663 00:40:39,896 --> 00:40:41,396 My God. 664 00:40:42,732 --> 00:40:44,108 You're... 665 00:40:44,484 --> 00:40:45,776 writing again. 666 00:40:46,361 --> 00:40:47,486 After you promised. 667 00:40:47,654 --> 00:40:50,447 Anne, you should have seen them, the mob. 668 00:40:51,032 --> 00:40:53,784 They didn't sit there like the reptilia of court, 669 00:40:53,952 --> 00:40:56,787 faces motionless, fangs momentarily retracted. 670 00:40:56,955 --> 00:40:59,873 No! They climbed the stage! They fought the French! 671 00:41:00,125 --> 00:41:02,793 Stop it! Stop this at once! 672 00:41:04,337 --> 00:41:06,588 Why must you write? 673 00:41:06,756 --> 00:41:10,175 Why must you continue to humiliate my family? 674 00:41:10,343 --> 00:41:12,845 [ANNE SOBBING] 675 00:41:13,012 --> 00:41:14,555 The voices, Anne. 676 00:41:14,722 --> 00:41:15,848 [♪♪♪] 677 00:41:16,015 --> 00:41:19,101 The voices, I can't stop them. They come to me. 678 00:41:19,269 --> 00:41:22,771 When I sleep, when I wake, when I sup. When I walk down the hall. 679 00:41:22,939 --> 00:41:27,109 The sweet longings of a maiden, the surging ambitions of a courtier, 680 00:41:27,277 --> 00:41:30,487 the designs of a murderer, the pleas of his victims. 681 00:41:30,655 --> 00:41:35,367 Only when I put their words, their voices, to parchment 682 00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:37,661 are they cast loose, freed. 683 00:41:38,204 --> 00:41:40,414 Only then is my mind quieted. 684 00:41:42,125 --> 00:41:43,458 At peace. 685 00:41:46,004 --> 00:41:49,339 I would go mad if I didn't write down the voices. 686 00:41:51,259 --> 00:41:53,177 Are you possessed? 687 00:41:53,928 --> 00:41:55,596 Maybe I am. 688 00:41:57,599 --> 00:41:59,099 SHAKESPEARE: This is incredible, Ben. 689 00:41:59,267 --> 00:42:01,393 The whole bloody thing in verse. 690 00:42:01,561 --> 00:42:04,396 It's really not that difficult if you try. 691 00:42:04,564 --> 00:42:06,440 Oh, and have you ever tried? 692 00:42:06,608 --> 00:42:08,984 Ahh. But soft! 693 00:42:09,152 --> 00:42:11,570 What light through yonder window breaks? 694 00:42:12,071 --> 00:42:15,908 It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. 695 00:42:18,411 --> 00:42:21,246 I'll have little trouble parting the legs of barmaids. 696 00:42:21,414 --> 00:42:23,123 You cannot play Romeo. 697 00:42:23,291 --> 00:42:26,043 What? Why not? I'm perfect for the role. 698 00:42:26,211 --> 00:42:30,297 I will not let that oaf Spencer have another go at one of my roles. 699 00:42:30,465 --> 00:42:34,301 Only Will Shakespeare can pump the life into Romeo's veins. 700 00:42:34,469 --> 00:42:37,179 And his codpiece. No, Ben. 701 00:42:37,347 --> 00:42:40,599 Ben, I'm an actor. Every inch of me, 702 00:42:40,767 --> 00:42:43,894 right down to my very toes. I want to... 703 00:42:44,062 --> 00:42:47,272 No, I crave to act. 704 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,691 So bloody well act like a writer. 705 00:42:49,859 --> 00:42:52,110 And, for God's sake, keep off the stage. 706 00:42:52,278 --> 00:42:54,071 Writers do not have time to act. 707 00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:55,906 [♪♪♪] 708 00:42:56,449 --> 00:42:57,950 [SIGHS] 709 00:43:02,705 --> 00:43:06,708 SPENCER [AS ROMEO]: What lady's that, which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight? 710 00:43:06,876 --> 00:43:08,752 I know not, sir. 711 00:43:12,674 --> 00:43:16,677 O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright. 712 00:43:17,595 --> 00:43:20,013 It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night, 713 00:43:20,181 --> 00:43:23,433 like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. 714 00:43:24,102 --> 00:43:25,143 [GROANS] 715 00:43:25,311 --> 00:43:28,605 Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. 716 00:43:28,773 --> 00:43:32,567 So shows a snowy dove t