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Was Shakespeare a Fraud?

2011 · PG-13 · 2h 10m

Directed by Roland Emmerich

6.4

TMDB audience score
820 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

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Cast

  • Jamie Campbell Bower
    Young Earl of Oxford

  • Rhys Ifans
    Edward de Vere

  • David Thewlis
    William Cecil

  • Joely Richardson
    Princess Elizabeth Tudor

  • Vanessa Redgrave
    Queen Elizabeth I

  • Sebastian Armesto
    Ben Jonson

  • Rafe Spall
    William Shakespeare

  • Edward Hogg
    Robert Cecil

  • Xavier Samuel
    Earl of Southampton

  • Sam Reid
    Earl of Essex

  • Paolo De Vita
    Francesco

  • Trystan Gravelle
    Christopher Marlowe

  • Robert Emms
    Thomas Dekker

  • Tony Way
    Thomas Nashe

  • Julian Bleach
    Captain Richard Pole

  • Derek Jacobi
    Prologue

  • Alex Hassell
    Spencer

  • James Garnon
    John Heminge