Shakespeare in Love Page #16

SAM AS JULIET:

(above)

"Ay me."

VIOLA AS ROMEO:

"She speaks.

Oh speak again bright angel…"

We have abandoned real time. The scene continues CROSS

CUT between the STAGE and VIOLA'S BED.

INT. DE LESSEPSES' HOUSE. VIOLA'S BEDROOM. EVENING.

WILL:

(reading through VIOLA'S

kisses)

"Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou

Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy

name."

INT. THE ROSE THEATRE. STAGE. DAY

SAM AS JULIET:

"Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my

love And I'll no longer be a Capulet."

VIOLA AS ROMEO:

(below)

"Shall I hear more or shall I speak at

this?"

INT. DE LESSEPSES' HOUSE. VIOLA'S BEDROOM. NIGHT.

WILL and VIOLA in bed.

WILL:

"What man art thou that thus

bescreen'd in night So stumblest on my

counsel?"

INT. THE ROSE THEATRE. STAGE/AUDITORIUM. NIGHT.

It's become late and the rehearsal is continuing by

torchlight.

VIOLA AS ROMEO:

"…By a name I know not how to tell

thee who I am:
My name, dear saint, is

hateful to myself Because it is an

enemy to thee…"

We see that a group of the other actors have drifted "out

front," drawn by the scene. FENNYMAN is there entranced.

Clearly, this stuff is a cut above the normal.

INT. DE LESSEPSES' HOUSE. VIOLA'S BEDROOM. NIGHT

WILL, undressed, strides around the room, feeding

"JULIET'S" lines to VIOLA in bed.

WILL:

"The orchard walls are high and hard

to climb, And the place death,

considering who thou art, If any of my

kinsmen find thee here. If they do see

thee, they will murder thee."

INT. THE ROSE THEATRE. STAGE. NIGHT.

VIOLA AS ROMEO:

"Alack, there lies more peril in thine

eye, Than twenty of their swords! Look

thou but sweet, And I am proof against

their enmity."

SAM AS JULIET:

I would not for the world!

VIOLA AS ROMEO:

I have night's cloak to hide me from

their eyes; And but thou love me, let

them find me here.

INT. DE LESSEPSES' HOUSE. VIOLA'S BEDROOM. NIGHT.

WILL and VIOLA are both out of bed, halfway though

dressing. Still rehearsing.

WILL:

"Good night, good night. As sweet

repose and rest Come to thy heart as

that within my breast. O wilt thou

leave me so unsatisfied?"

VIOLA:

That's my line!

WILL:

Oh, but it is mine too!

INT. THE ROSE THEATRE. STAGE. NIGHT.

VIOLA AS ROMEO:

"O wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?"

SAM AS JULIET:

"What satisfaction can'st thou have

tonight?"

VIOLA AS ROMEO:

"The exchange of thy love's faithful

vow for mine."

INT. DE LESSEPSES' HOUSE. VIOLA'S BEDROOM. NIGHT.

WILL and VIOLA are back on the bed, kissing and making

love.

WILL:

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,

My love as deep:

VIOLA AND WILL:

(continuing the speech with

him)

the more I give to thee The more I

have, for both are infinite."

Outside the NURSE is knocking on the door and calling.

INT. THE ROSE THEATRE. STAGE. DAY.

SAM AS JULIET:

"I hear some noise within. Dear love,

adieu."

RALPH, the Nurse, call's "JULIET!" off stage.

INT. DE LESSEPSES' HOUSE. VIOLA'S BEDROOM. NIGHT

VIOLA:

(calling to the NURSE who is

outside)

Anon, good Nurse

INT. DE LESSEPSES' HOUSE. OUTSIDE VIOLA'S BEDROOM. NIGHT.

The NURSE listens at the door.

INT. THE ROSE THEATRE. STAGE. DAY.

SAM AS JULIET:

"Anon, good Nurse--Sweet Montague be

true."

INT. DE LESSEPSES' HOUSE. VIOLA'S BEDROOM. NIGHT.

WILL:

"Stay but a little, I will come

again."

VIOLA slaps him playfully for his vulgarity, and then

kisses him.

INT. THE ROSE THEATRE. STAGE. DAY.

SAM AS JULIET:

"Stay but a little, I will come

again."

SAM leaves the balcony through the curtain.

VIOLA AS ROMEO:

"Oh blessed blessed night."

INT. DE LESSEPSES' HOUSE. VIOLA'S BEDROOM. NIGHT.

It is night. They have just made love. Suddenly it is

very still.

VIOLA:

(almost to herself)

"I am feared,

Being in night, all this but a dream, Too flattering-

sweet to be substantial."

INT. THE ROSE THEATRE. BACKSTAGE. DAY.

Onstage, the scene continues. Backstage NED ALLEYN is

working his way upstairs. He passes by RALPH (the Nurse)

who has a couple of words "of," as it were, in "JULIET'S"

chamber.

SAM AS JULIET (O.S.)

"…All my fortunes at thy foot I'll

lay, And follow thee my lord

throughout the world."

RALPH AS NURSE:

"Madam!"

SAM AS JULIET (O.S.)

"I come, anon--But if thou meanest not

well, I do beseech thee--"

RALPH AS NURSE:

"Madam!"

SAM AS JULIET (O.S.)

By and by I come to cease thy strife

and leave me to my grief. A thousand

times good night!"

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