Anonymous Overview
As royal troops set fire to the Globe Theatre, Elizabethan-era playwright Ben Jonson (Sebastian Armesto) is tortured by Robert Cecil (Edward Hogg), who demands to know if Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans), is the true author of the writings attributed to William Shakespeare (Rafe Spall). 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."
Rating
PG-13 — Some Violence, Sexual Content
Production company
Centropolis Entertainment
Anonymous cast and crew
- Rhys Ifans as Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
- Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth I
- Joely Richardson as Young Queen Elizabeth I
- David Thewlis as William Cecil
- Xavier Samuel as Earl of Southampton
- Sebastian Armesto as Ben Jonson
- Rafe Spall as William Shakespeare
- Edward Hogg as Robert Cecil
- Sebastian Reid as Earl of Essex
- Jamie Bower as Young Earl of Oxford
- Derek Jacobi as Prologue
- Trystan Gravelle as Christopher Marlowe
- Helen Baxendale as Anne De Vere
- Mark Rylance as Condell
- Paolo De Vita as Francesco
- Robert Emms as Thomas Dekker
- Tony Way as Thomas Nashe
- Julian Bleach as Capt. Richard Pole
