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* MeaningfulEcho: Within the same scene. During their conversation, Shakespeare declaims Sonnet 29 to the Earl of Southampton in a thinly-veiled AnguishedDeclarationOfLove (essentially settling his being AmbiguouslyBi). While Southampton [[IgnoredEnamoredUnderling seems aghast]] or [[AbhorrentAdmirer perturbed enough]] to leave for it, he eventually turns and recites it himself, but warmer (essentially admitting he did return Shakespeare's feelings even if [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy both of them can't do anything about it anymore]]).
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The film takes its title from ''Theatre/AllIsTrue'', the original title of Shakespeare's play about UsefulNotes/HenryVIII.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: {{Lampshaded}} by Will himself.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Susanna learned to read, but Judith did not due to her impatient personality.
* BrokenAce: Shakespeare is a renowned playwright returning home rich, armigerous, and an unqualified success. But his relationship with his family is awkward and fractious due to his long absence, he still thinks he needs to live down his late father's misdeeds, and he's still not over bad reviews of his plays.
--> '''Southampton:''' Why do you ''care?'' [...] You wrote ''Theatre/KingLear''!
* BrokenAce: Shakespeare is a renowned playwright returning home rich, armigerous, and an unqualified success. But his relationship with his family is awkward and fractious due to his long absence, he still thinks he needs to live down his late father's misdeeds, and he's still not over bad reviews of his plays.
--> '''Southampton:''' Why do you ''care?'' [...] You wrote ''Theatre/KingLear''!
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* MaliciousSlander: Judith is accused of adultery because she purchased mercury[[note]]then a treatment for syphilis[[/note]] and used her own name for the order rather than that of her doctor husband, and the local tailor has a crush on her. It's dropped when her accuser fails to turn up in court, having been frightened away by Shakespeare's fiction of a terrifying former lover.
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* MaliciousSlander: Judith Susanna is accused of adultery because she purchased mercury[[note]]then a treatment for syphilis[[/note]] and used her own name for the order rather than that of her doctor husband, and the local tailor has a crush on her. It's dropped when her accuser fails to turn up in court, having been frightened away by Shakespeare's fiction of a terrifying former lover.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Shakespeare is not fond of his self-righteous Puritan son-in-law, John Hall. When Anne points out that Hall is unaware of this, Shakespeare says "I'm a good actor."
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Shakespeare is not fond of his self-righteous Puritan son-in-law, John Hall. When Anne points out that Hall is unaware of this, thinks they're friends, Shakespeare says "I'm a good actor."
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sir Thomas Lucy sneers at Shakespeare for being the son of a glover, having a philandering son-in-law, and still being an untitled little man from a little town. Shakespeare takes a moment to digest this and then hits back by detailing each and every thing he's had to coordinate as an actor, director, and theater manager, going through every step of writing a play, organizing an acting troupe, getting people into the theater, and navigating the politics of performing for powerful and touchy patrons, and doing so over and over for ''twenty years''... which is a damn sight more impressive than having a title, which only requires being born to people who already had one.
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* TitleDrop:TitleDrop: When the aspiring playwright asks for real writing advice, Shakespeare tells him to use everything he has in his life and in his heart to fuel his writing--and when he does, putting everything himself into the work, then whatever he writes, "all is true."
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* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: The Earl of Southampton, played by Sir Ian [=McKellan=], complains to Shakespeare, played by Sir Kenneth Branagh, that "they'll give anyone a knighthood these days."
* MaliciousSlander: Judith is accused of adultery because she purchased mercury[[note]]then a treatment for syphilis[[/note]] and used her own name for the order rather than that of her doctor husband, and the local tailor has a crush on her. It's dropped when her accuser fails to turn up in court, having been frightened away by Shakespeare's fiction of a terrifying former lover.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Shakespeare is not fond of his self-righteous Puritan son-in-law, John Hall. When Anne points out that Hall is unaware of this, Shakespeare says "I'm a good actor."
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* SurvivorsGuilt: Judith has a mixture of this and perception that she is TheUnfavorite and that Shakespeare would have preferred she died to Hamnet.
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* SpottingTheThread: Shakespeare has no reason to disbelieve that Hamnet died of plague until he goes to sign the funeral register as a gesture of closure and sees that his son was the ''only'' recorded death that year. Shakespeare knows from having been in London during plague years that the disease is "a scythe, not a dagger" and confronts Anne and Judith about the lie.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Judith has a mixture of this and perception that she is TheUnfavorite and that Shakespeare would have preferred she died toHamnet.Hamnet.
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* SurvivorsGuilt: Judith has a mixture of this and perception that she is TheUnfavorite and that Shakespeare would have preferred she died to
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* HeirClubForMen: Shakespeare has a granddaughter, but badly wants a grandson.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: John Hall is portrayed (at least partially inaccurately) as a stiff Puritan who doesn’t get along well with the rest of the family, but he shows grief and concern for Margaret Wheeler and her unborn child when they die during labor.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: John Hall is portrayed (at least partially inaccurately) as a stiff Puritan who doesn’t get along well with the rest of the family, but he shows grief and concern for Margaret Wheeler and her unborn child when they die during labor.
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* RapidFireInterrupting: When an admirer shows up on Shakespeare's doorstep while Shakespeare is fixing a fence, he preemptively answers all the common question, including but not limited to what his favorite play is (he doesn't have one) and whether or not he thinks women should be allowed to perform on the stage, as is done on the continent (he does).
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* RapidFireInterrupting: When an admirer shows up on Shakespeare's doorstep while Shakespeare is fixing a fence, he preemptively answers all the common question, questions, including but not limited to what his favorite play is (he doesn't have one) and whether or not he thinks women should be allowed to perform on the stage, as is done on the continent (he does).
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* RapidFireInterrupting: When an admirer shows up on Shakespeare's doorstep, doorstep while Shakespeare is fixing a fence, he preemptively answers all the common question, including but not limited to what his favorite play is (he doesn't have one) and whether or not he thinks women should be allowed to perform on the stage, as is done on the continent (he does).
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* ScaryBlackMan: While getting Susanna's accuser off her back, Shakespeare tells him that she has an old flame who's still in love with her: the huge black man who played Aaron in ''Theater/TitusAndronicus''. This amuses his family, who knew the actor personally and recalled him as [[FaceOfAThug a kind,]] [[MeanCharacterNiceActor gentle person]].
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* ScaryBlackMan: While getting Susanna's accuser off her back, Shakespeare tells him that she has an old flame who's still in love with her: the huge black man who played Aaron in ''Theater/TitusAndronicus''.''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''. This amuses his family, who knew the actor personally and recalled him as [[FaceOfAThug a kind,]] [[MeanCharacterNiceActor gentle person]].
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* MythologyGag: "The Second Best Bed" is not only referenced but a plot point for Anne and Will's relationship. Will's decision to reference it in his will is now a heartwarming gesture of love.
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* MythologyGag: LovingAShadow: Shakespeare especially mourns Hamnet's death because it seemed like his son was also a talented writer. [[spoiler: It turns out Judith, not he, was writing all those poems, and Hamnet may have been DrivenToSuicide by the idea his father would find out. Learning this is able to help Shakespeare accept a more-honest memory of his son, and to mourn and bond with his living family.]]
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** "The Second Best Bed" is not only referenced but a plot point for Anne and Will's relationship. Will's decision to reference it in his will is now a heartwarming gesture oflove.love.
** Ben Johnson is mentioned as giving Shakespeare grief for not reading Greek and giving Bavaria a coast.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Hamnet's death hangs heavy over the whole first part of the film.
* RapidFireInterrupting: When an admirer shows up on Shakespeare's doorstep, he preemptively answers all the common question, including but not limited to what his favorite play is (he doesn't have one) and whether or not he thinks women should be allowed to perform on the stage, as is done on the continent (he does).
* ScaryBlackMan: While getting Susanna's accuser off her back, Shakespeare tells him that she has an old flame who's still in love with her: the huge black man who played Aaron in ''Theater/TitusAndronicus''. This amuses his family, who knew the actor personally and recalled him as [[FaceOfAThug a kind,]] [[MeanCharacterNiceActor gentle person]].
* ShakespeareInFiction: Focusing on his retirement and family life at the conclusion of his career.
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** "The Second Best Bed" is not only referenced but a plot point for Anne and Will's relationship. Will's decision to reference it in his will is now a heartwarming gesture of
** Ben Johnson is mentioned as giving Shakespeare grief for not reading Greek and giving Bavaria a coast.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Hamnet's death hangs heavy over the whole first part of the film.
* RapidFireInterrupting: When an admirer shows up on Shakespeare's doorstep, he preemptively answers all the common question, including but not limited to what his favorite play is (he doesn't have one) and whether or not he thinks women should be allowed to perform on the stage, as is done on the continent (he does).
* ScaryBlackMan: While getting Susanna's accuser off her back, Shakespeare tells him that she has an old flame who's still in love with her: the huge black man who played Aaron in ''Theater/TitusAndronicus''. This amuses his family, who knew the actor personally and recalled him as [[FaceOfAThug a kind,]] [[MeanCharacterNiceActor gentle person]].
* ShakespeareInFiction: Focusing on his retirement and family life at the conclusion of his career.
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Kenneth Branagh, the great Shakespearean actor-director of the late 20th and early 21st Century now comes full-circle in playing [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare the Bard himself]] in this film. In true Shakespearean tradition it's a dramatic interpretation of Shakespeare's last years with the dramatic license fittingly lampshaded by Shakespeare in the film. The story focuses on Shakespeare returning to Stratford after the fire that consumed the Globe Theatre. His family are estranged for him and he is also forced to at last confront the death of his son Hamnet.
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Kenneth Branagh, the great Shakespearean actor-director of the late 20th and early 21st Century now comes full-circle in playing the Bard himself in this film. In true Shakespearean tradition it's a dramatic interpretation of Shakespeare's last years with the dramatic license fittingly lampshaded by Shakespeare in the film. The story focuses on Shakespeare returning to Stratford after the fire that consumed the Globe Theatre. His family are estranged for him and he is also forced to at last confront the death of his son Hamnet.
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Kenneth Branagh, the great Shakespearean actor-director of the late 20th and early 21st Century now comes full-circle in playing [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare the Bard himself himself]] in this film. In true Shakespearean tradition it's a dramatic interpretation of Shakespeare's last years with the dramatic license fittingly lampshaded by Shakespeare in the film. The story focuses on Shakespeare returning to Stratford after the fire that consumed the Globe Theatre. His family are estranged for him and he is also forced to at last confront the death of his son Hamnet.
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* AwwTheyReallyLoveEachOther: Anne and Will are not on the best of terms and she is aware of his flirtations with the "Dark Lady" and "Fair Youth", but she eventually welcomes him back to their bedchamber.
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* AwwTheyReallyLoveEachOther: AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Anne and Will are not on the best of terms and she is aware of his flirtations with the "Dark Lady" and "Fair Youth", but she eventually welcomes him back to their bedchamber.
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* AwwLookTheyReallyLoveEachOther: AwwTheyReallyLoveEachOther: Anne and Will are not on the best of terms and she is aware of his flirtations with the "Dark Lady" and "Fair Youth", but she eventually welcomes him back to their bedchamber.
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Kenneth Branagh, the great Shakespearean actor-director of the late 20th and early 21st Century now comes full-circle in playing the Bard himself in this film. In true Shakespearean tradition it's a dramatic interpretation of Shakespeare's last years with the dramatic license fittingly lampshaded by Shakespeare in the film. The story focuses on Shakespeare returning to Stratford after the fire that consumed the Globe Theatre. His family are estranged for him and he is also forced to at last confront the death of his son Hamnet.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Judith thinks it's hilarious that the daughter of the greatest playwright is married to a Puritan who hates art.
* ArcWords: "You must write again."
* AwwLookTheyReallyLoveEachOther: Anne and Will are not on the best of terms and she is aware of his flirtations with the "Dark Lady" and "Fair Youth", but she eventually welcomes him back to their bedchamber.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Shakespeare [[IDidWhatIHadToDo justifies himself]] for his estrangement by saying that he's made his family wealthy and that they had three wonderful children.
* MythologyGag: "The Second Best Bed" is not only referenced but a plot point for Anne and Will's relationship. Will's decision to reference it in his will is now a heartwarming gesture of love.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Judith has a mixture of this and perception that she is TheUnfavorite and that Shakespeare would have preferred she died to Hamnet.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Judith thinks it's hilarious that the daughter of the greatest playwright is married to a Puritan who hates art.
* ArcWords: "You must write again."
* AwwLookTheyReallyLoveEachOther: Anne and Will are not on the best of terms and she is aware of his flirtations with the "Dark Lady" and "Fair Youth", but she eventually welcomes him back to their bedchamber.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Shakespeare [[IDidWhatIHadToDo justifies himself]] for his estrangement by saying that he's made his family wealthy and that they had three wonderful children.
* MythologyGag: "The Second Best Bed" is not only referenced but a plot point for Anne and Will's relationship. Will's decision to reference it in his will is now a heartwarming gesture of love.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Judith has a mixture of this and perception that she is TheUnfavorite and that Shakespeare would have preferred she died to Hamnet.
