DVD
Anonymous
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Languages
English, French or Spanish dialogue; optional English, Mandarin, French or Spanish subtitles; English audio description track, English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, David Thewlis, Xavier Samuel, Sebastian Armesto, Rafe Spall, Edward Hogg, Jamie Campbell Bower, Derek Jacobi.
Publication Information
Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2012]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; some violence and sexual content.
Summary
Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, this film dramatizes the conspiracy theory that the works of William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2011.
Special features: commentary with director Roland Emmerich and writer John Orloff ; deleted scenes ; Who is the real William Shakespeare?
Subjects
- Theater > Great Britain > History > 16th century > Drama.
- Great Britain > Court and courtiers > History > 16th century > Drama.
- Great Britain > History > Tudors, 1485-1603 > Drama.
- Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of, 1550-1604 > Drama.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Authorship > Drama.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Drama.
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 > Drama.
- Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 > Drama.
- Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598 > Drama.
- Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612 > Drama.