Unge William Shakespeare har skriveblokade. Premieren på hans nye skuespil nærmer sig, og han lider under et desperat behov for inspiration, men så finder han sig en muse – Viola. Denne smukke, unge kvinde er Wills største beundrer, og vil ikke lade sig bremse at noget (end ikke loven) for at kunne medvirke i hans næste skuespil. På en baggrund af identitetsforviklinger og skruppelløse intriger blomstrer Wills kærlighed til Viola, og inspirerer ham til at skrive sit største mesterværk.
“Funny, often genuinley moving, and generates a glow you could warm your hands by… The best British comedy since One Man, Two Guvnors and deserves equal success.” – Daily Telegraph. “An absolute joy from beginning to end!” – Daily Express. “There’s the elating sense that the material – with its rivalry between the public playhouses echoing between the Monatgues and the Capulets – is reveling in it’s natural elements in the theatre… It makes you feel grateful to be alive.” – The Independent. “Marvelously fluid, riotously funny, and often intensely, even startlingly poignant… This may be, in part at least, a comedy about Shakespeare falling in love; but joking aside, it could just make you fall, all over again, in love with Shakespeare.” – Chicago Tribune.
