That whole montage sequence is unbelievable. Apparently one of the producers really wanted to cut it--she thought America wouldn't buy Will and Viola saying poetry to each other as they made love. Harvey Weinstein (or maybe it was John Madden, the director(presumably not the sports commentator guy)) kept saying "I want to keep it" and it wasn't until well, well into the production process, like maybe as late as the test audiences, that she finally saw how transporting that sequence was.

I just finished watching one of the commentary tracks. They were talking about the editing of that sequence and how gradually they sped up the cuts--going from Rome and Juliet on the stage saying their lines, and then Will and Viola making love saying the same lines--life feeding art feeding the artists, until the cuts are so fast and seamless you don't know what world you're in. Is this really happening? Is this the stage or real life? And to me those are negligible distinctions--art is life.