No less marvelous are its imaginings of an Elizabethan theater fraught with the same backbiting and conniving we enjoy today. (So what if characters talk about Virginia tobacco plantations before there was a Virginia?) Galvanized by the near-total absence of biographical data, it soars freely into the realm of invention, wittily weaving Shakespearean language and emotion into an intoxicatingly glamorous romance. Shakespeare meets Sherlock, and makes for pure enchantment in the inspired conjecture behind ''Shakespeare in Love.'' This film's exhilarating cleverness springs from its speculation about where the playwright might have found the beginnings of ''Romeo and Juliet,'' but it is not constrained by worries about literary or historical accuracy.
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