Original:Anonymous

Adaptation:

Genre:Film

Country: USA/UK

Date:28 Oct. 2011 (USA, UK, Canada, then selected cinemas worldwide)

Adaptor: John Orloff

Director / Producer: Roland Emmerich

Venue:

Cast: Rhys Ifans (Edward de Vere), Vanessa Redgrave ( Elizabeth I), Sebastian Armesto ( Ben Jonson ), Rafe Spall ( William Shakespeare ), David Thewlis ( William Cecil )

Summary:A historically fanciful examination of the Shakespearean authorship controversy, with Ben Jonson cast as a go-between for Edward de Vere and the fake playwright William Shakespeare .

Notes:A production of Anonymous Pictures, Centropolis Entertainment, Relativity Media, Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures. Distrib. Columbia Pictures