A brief biography of the Bard beginning and ending in Stratford. After grammar school and marriage to Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare goes to London and gets a job tending patron's horses during performances at Burbage's Blackfriars Theatre, is promoted to prompter, and soon writes his first historical play, "Henry VI." Success as a writer, actor, and part owner of the Globe Theatre comes quickly. The film imagines Shakespeare as lonely and melancholy, with the romantic and doomed love of "Romeo and Juliet" as his favorite work.