There are plenty of reasons Elizabeth and Darcy can't be together (at least at first), but their problems pale in comparison to the sweeping romance at the heart of Shakespeare in Love. The movie reimagines Shakespeare's younger years as he struggles to write Romeo and Juliet. A chance meeting with Viola, an aristocratic woman with ambitions of her own, inspires him to tell the famous love story. When auditions begin, Viola disguises herself as a boy to audition for Juliet and gets the role, all while trying to hide her identity from the cast and hide her theatrical work from her family and her odious would-be fiancé. Will and Viola's relationship may or may not last, but their love always will.