The site is at Park Street, at the southern end of Southwark Bridge. The property developers eventually agreed to preserve the theatre in the basement of the new building. The real Rose, where Shakespeare's earlier plays were first performed, was actually uncovered during building work in Southwark n London’s South Bank, in the late Eighties, and a massive campaign was launched to preserve it.
After filming, it was presented to Dame Judi Dench with an eye to restoring it as a working theatre. The ‘Rose Theatre’ is not, as many people seem to assume, the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside, but a studio set built for the movie. Multi-Oscar winner, including Best Picture, as a hunky, young playwright William Shakespeare ( Joseph Fiennes) struggles to write Romeo and Ethel, The Pirate’s Daughter and aristocrat Viola de Lesseps ( Gwyneth Paltrow) defies the convention of the times by wanting to act.
Shakespeare In Love location: The house of Viola: Broughton Castle, Banbury, Oxfordshire
