Was Shakespeare a Fraud?
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.
$30,000,000
$15,395,087
October 21, 2011
Centropolis Entertainment, Columbia Pictures
77 people
Jamie Campbell Bower
Young Earl of Oxford
Acting
Rhys Ifans
Edward de Vere
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David Thewlis
William Cecil
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Joely Richardson
Princess Elizabeth Tudor
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Vanessa Redgrave
Queen Elizabeth I
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Sebastian Armesto
Ben Jonson
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Rafe Spall
William Shakespeare
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Edward Hogg
Robert Cecil
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Xavier Samuel
Earl of Southampton
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Sam Reid
Earl of Essex
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Paolo De Vita
Francesco
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Trystan Gravelle
Christopher Marlowe
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