Anonymous

Release Date:

Oct 28, 2011

MPAA Rating:

PG-13

Running Time:

2:10

Genre:

Historical Drama

Director:

Roland Emmerich

Cast:

Rhys Ifans	Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
Vanessa Redgrave	Queen Elizabeth I
Joely Richardson	Young Queen Elizabeth I
David Thewlis	William Cecil
Xavier Samuel	Earl of Southampton
Sebastian Armesto	Ben Jonson
Rafe Spall	William Shakespeare
Edward Hogg	Robert Cecil
Sebastian Reid	Earl of Essex
Jamie Campbell Bower	Young Earl of Oxford
Derek Jacobi	Prologue
Trystan Gravelle	Christopher Marlowe
Helen Baxendale	Anne De Vere
Mark Rylance	Condell
Paolo De Vita	Francesco
Robert Emms	Thomas Dekker
Tony Way	Thomas Nashe
Julian Bleach	Capt. Richard Pole

Producers:

Roland Emmerich , Larry Franco , Robert Leger , Volker Engel , Marc Weigert , John Orloff

Writers:

John Orloff

Language:

English

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As royal troops set fire to the Globe Theatre, Elizabethan-era playwright Ben Jonson is tortured by Robert Cecil, who demands to know if Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, is the true author of the writings attributed to William Shakespeare . Flashbacks reveal Oxford's passionate affair with Queen Elizabeth I and how -- in his younger days -- Oxford charmed her with plays like ``A Midsummer Night's Dream.''

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