History Funny / ShakespeareInLove

-->'''Shakespeare:''' *squeak of despair*

* Shakespeare, heartbroken at the knowledge that he and Viola can't be together, tells the troupe that he's rewritten the plot of the play (and the viewer recognizes the familiar story); the lovers are separated, and due to a tragic misunderstanding they both commit suicide. The actors sit in sombre silence, clearly affected by this turn in events...except for Henslowe, who was promised a comedy; he sarcastically muses: "Well, that should have them ''rolling'' in the aisles."

-->'''Shakespeare:''' I'll be with you, Sam- ''(DoubleTake)'' '''Sam...'''

* Henslowe attempting to calm a panicking Shakespeare when it looks like everything is going wrong with the premiere of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet;'' especially when 'Juliet's' voice has suddenly broken:

-->'''Shakespeare:''' [[TheShowMustGoOn Go on?!]]

-->'''Shakespeare:''' How will it?!

* Pretty much everything involving the bloodthirsty young scamp, John Webster (who would grow up to become a writer of particularly gruesome tragedies), ESPECIALLY the scene where he tips off Mr. Tilney about Viola performing in drag:

* During the opening audition for ''Romeo And Ethel the Pirate's Daughter'', every would-be performer auditions by using the same lines from [[TheRival Marlowe's]] ''Faustus'', which annoys Shakespeare to no end.

'''Will:''' Mercutio.\\

-->I had that Christopher Marlowe in my boat once.

-->Writer, is he?
-->ROW YOUR BOAT!

-->'''Shakespeare:''' How will it?!?!

* As Lord Wessex and Viola leave the church, a flyer for Romeo and Juliet hits him in the face, blown there by the wind.

* How Shakespeare gets Ned to take the part in the first place.

-->A writer, is he?
-->ROW YOUR BOAT.

* Pretty much every HistoricalInJoke that pops up throughout the movie.

* Chasing after Viola to find out about this [[WholesomeCrossdresser Thomas Kent]] fellow, Shakespeare decides to climb up the rose vines to Viola's balcony. Just when audiences think we're about to see a re-staging of the infamous balcony scene from the play... [[spoiler:it's the ''nurse'' who catches Shakespeare climbing up, and both are freaked out by the surprise]].

** Just the very idea that all of English literature is awaiting the epic that is "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter."

** How Shakespeare gets Ned to take the part in the first place.
* Queen Elizabeth stopping at a puddle and looking expectantly at her courtiers, who quickly take of their capes, only for her to walk through the water anyway muttering "Too late, too late."

** Later, a prostitute asks Ralph to tell her about the play, and he claims that the nurse is the main character to impress her.

* When [[spoiler: Elizabeth is leaving the theatre]], she looks pointedly down at a mud puddle laying between her and her carriage. Cue her looking to the assembled men and they all begin to try to remove their cloaks to lay down for her, only for her to get aggravated and walk across the puddle and muddy her dress, saying "Too late....Too late..."

* When [[spoiler: Elizabeth is leaving the theatre]], she looks pointedly down at a mud puddle laying between her and her carriage. Cue her looking to the assembled men and they all begin to try to remove their cloaks to lay down for her, only for her to get aggravated and walk across it, saying "Too late."

* When Tilney shows up during the final performance, saying there is a woman on the stage, Ralph (in his nurse costume) acts as if he thinks they're talking about him.

* When Tilney closes down the theater, he initially mistakes the male actor playing Juliet for [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the woman illegally performing on stage]] and pulls up his dress to try and prove it.

* As Lord Wessex and Viola leave the church, a flyer for Romeo and Juliet hits him in the face, blown there by the wind.

* Henslowe attempting to calm a panicking Shakespeare when it looks like everything is going wrong with the premiere of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'':

-->'''Shakespeare:''' [[TheShowMustGoOn Go on!]]

* Henslowe attempting to calm a panicking Shakespeare when it looks like everything is going wrong with the premiere of ''RomeoAndJuliet'':

* As he and Viola leave the church, a flyer for Romeo and Juliet hits him in the face, blown there by the wind.

* While the Admiral's Men are busy [[DrowningMySorrows drowning their sorrows]] following Tilney closing the Rose, Ralph decides that he's not working, downs his drink, and [[CantHoldHisLiquor passes out then and there]].

* While the Admiral's Men are busy [[DrowningMySorrows drowning their sorrows]] following Tilney closing the Curtain, Ralph decides that he's not working, takes a drink from his tankard, and [[CantHoldHisLiquor passes out then and there]].

-->'''Webster:''' ''(pointing at Shakespeare)'' He did! I saw him kissing her bubbies!

-->'''Henslowe:''' The show must... you knonw... ''(trails off aimlessly)''

* Pretty much everything involving the bloodthirsty young scamp, John Webster (who would grow up to become a writer of particularly gruseome tragedies), ESPECIALLY there scene where he tips off Mr Tilney about Viola performing in drag:

The boatman rolling his eyes at Shakespeare's PurpleProse.

-->ROW YOUR BOAT.

-->I had that Christopher Marlowe in my boat once.

* Queen Elizabeth stopping at a puddle and looking expectantly at her courtiers, who quickly take of their capes, only for her to walk through the water anyway muttering "Too late, too late."

-->...He ''dies''?

* During the opening audition for ''Romeo And Ethel the Pirate's Daughter'', every would-be performer auditions by using the same lines from [[TheRival Marlowe's]] ''Faustus'', which annoys Shakespeare to no end.

* Chasing after Viola to find out about this [[WholesomeCrossdresser Thomas Kent]] fellow, Shakespeare decides to climb up the rose vines to Viola's balcony. Just when audiences think we're about to see a re-staging of the infamous balcony scene from the play... it's the ''nurse'' who catches Shakespeare climbing up, and both are freaked out by the surprise.