Anonymous (2011)

Directors

Roland Emmerich

Cast

Rhys Ifans, Jamie Campbell Bower, David Thewlis, Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Xavier Samuel, Derek Jacobi, Rafe Spall, Edward Hogg, Ned Dennehy, Mike Maas, Derek Jacobi, Sebastian Armesto, Sam Reid, Robert Emms, Paolo de Vita, Tony Way, Trystan Gravelle, Julian Bleach

The story

In modern-day New York, Derek Jacobi arrives at a theatre where he delivers a monologue questioning the lack of manuscript writings of William Shakespeare, despite the undeniable fact that he is the most performed playwright of all time. Ben Jonson is preparing to enter the stage. The narrator offers to take the viewers into a different story behind the origin of Shakespeare's plays: "one of quills and swords, of power and betrayal, of a stage conquered and a throne lost." Jumping to Elizabethan London, Ben Jonson is running through the streets carrying a parcel and being pursued by soldiers.

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