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A previously undistinguished bit of Jacobean verse has achieved official recognition as the work of William Shakespeare.
It's even closer to a Jacobean drama of our own age: The Godfather (1972), which it emulates by cutting back-and-forth between queen and courtiers in prayer and the roundup and slaughter of Catholics on their privies, in bed with their mistresses, and so on.
The scene, which serves no purpose in the film's plot (though Webster will later be instrumental in stirring up the suspicion that Gwyneth Paltrow is a woman), is indeed a joke: John Webster is the name of the bloodiest of all English dramatists--the Quentin Tarantino of the Jacobean stage.