Anonymous

"Anonymous" speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds ranging from Mark Twain and Charles Dickens to Henry James and Sigmund Freud, namely: who was the author of the plays credited to William Shakespeare? Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories surrounding the authorship of the most renowned works in English literature. Anonymous poses one possible answer, focusing on a… Show more time when cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne were exposed in the most unlikely of places: the London stage.

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Xavier Samuel
Rhys Ifans
Jamie Campbell Bower
Vanessa Redgrave
David Thewlis

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Blow up your Shakespeare: Director Emmerich blasts the Bard in ‘Anonymous’

Oct. 28, 2011 - Boston.com - Wesley Morris

The ads for “Anonymous’’ ask, “Was Shakespeare a fraud?’’ I don’t have an answer. But if I needed one, would I turn to the director of “Stargate,’’ “Independence Day,’’ “The Day After Tomorrow,’’ “2012,’’ “10,000 BC,’’ and one very dull Godzilla movie? Of course! Roland Emmerich destroys things for a living. Why not the reputation of a man who lacked the imagination to blow up the Sistine Chapel?

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