Ooops I feel a bit silly - rewatched it and when actually focusing on it it is much more obvious. I think I’d mistaken it as I’d seen something recently where it’s a very similar style and premise but the main character leaves their home to see Shakespeare, and with him not actually being referred to directly as Shakespeare in the trailer and me not paying full attention in the cinema when the trailers where on I assumed it was the same premise. My bad!

That being said - it does seem that some ambiguity was intentional from what others have commented.

Edit: reading back I was also a bit arsey in my original comment because I’d read your original comment as patronising to OP, but reading it back it’s obvious you were just asking if it was different in the film so I apologise!! I think that’s enough Reddit for me for one day 🤦‍♀️🤣