POETIC PERIOD PIECES: Cold Mountain, Shakespeare in Love, Dangerous Beauty

From love letters to love poems to lyrical Venetian rap-battles, these three historical dramas put the PEN in penis. 

Jude Law makes a lot of noise playing a man of few words in COLD MOUNTAIN (2003). Verses get venereal in DANGEROUS BEAUTY (1998). Theatre once again proves its inherent queerness in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998).