Anonymous (2011)

Actors

• Joachim Paul Assböck (actor)
• Christian Banzhaf (actor)
• Gode Benedix (actor)
• Carsten Berger (actor)
• Oliver Bigalke (actor)
• Julian Bleach (actor)
• Detlef Bothe (actor)
• Jasper Britton (actor)
• Michael Brown (actor)
• Victor Calero (actor)
• Jamie Campbell Bower (actor)
• James Clyde (actor)
• Paolo De Vita (actor)
• Ned Dennehy (actor)
• Sebastian Armesto (actor)

Genres

• Drama
• History
• Thriller

Taglines:

Was Shakespeare a Fraud?

Quotes:

William Shakespeare: ...and the whole bloody thing in verse.::Ben Jonson: It's really not that difficult... if you try.::William Shakespeare: Oh, and have you ever tried? But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun...::Ben Jonson: You. Cannot. Play Romeo.::William Shakespeare: What! Why not? I'm perfect for the role. I'm perfect! I will not let that oaf Spencer have another go at one of my roles. No! Only Will Shakespeare can pump the life into Romeo's veins!... And his codpiece.

Ben Jonson: Politics? My play has nothing to do with politics. I-i-i-it's just a simple comedy.::Earl of Oxford: It showed your betters as fools who'd go through life barely managing to get food from plate to mouth were it not for the cleverness of their servants. All art is political, Jonson, otherwise it would just be decoration. And all artists have something to say, otherwise they'd make shoes. And you are not a cobbler, are you Jonson.

Young Earl of Oxford: [after sword gets knocked into young Robert Cecil's chess game] You were losing anyway.::Boy Robert Cecil: [had been playing alone] I was also winning!::Young Earl of Oxford: [tosses a piece back at Robert, who misses it] Really?

Prologue: Though our story is at an end, our poet's is not; for his monument is everliving. Not of stone but of verse. And it shall be remembered. As long as words are made of breath. And breath of life.

Ben Jonson: You are the soul of the age... Undeniable perfection that plagued my soul.

Robert Cecil: Plays are the work of the devil - born from a cesspool of plague, whoredom, thievery, fornication, and heresy.

Anne De Vere: You, your friends, your blasphemous theater have brought nothing but ruin and dishonor to this family.::Ben Jonson: Ruin? Dishonor? My lady, you, your family, even I, even Queen Elizabeth herself will be remembered solely because we had the honor to live whilst your husband put ink to paper.

Earl of Oxford: All art is political, Jonson. Otherwise it would just be decoration.

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005)

Actors

• Josh Cole (actor)
• Nigel Martin Davey (actor)
• Christopher Fairbank (actor)
• James Fiddy (actor)
• Rupert Graves (actor)
• Rasmus Hardiker (actor)
• Nicky Henson (actor)
• Tom Hiddleston (actor)
• Ian Hughes (actor)
• Tom Mison (actor)
• Nicholas Rowe (actor)
• Tom Sturridge (actor)
• Clem Tibber (actor)
• Andrew Tiernan (actor)
• Mark Bagnall (actor)

Genres

• Drama

The King's Author (1952)

Actors

• Gerard Burke (actor)
• Anthony Dawson (actor)
• Ross Martin (actor)
• Richard Newton (actor)
• J. Pat O'Malley (actor)
• William Podmore (actor)
• Byron Russell (actor)
• James Westerfield (actor)
• Sarah Churchill (actress)

Genres

Immortal Gentleman (1935)

Actors

• Ivan Berlyn (actor)
• Noel Birkin (actor)
• Laidman Browne (actor)
• Laidman Browne (actor)
• Laidman Browne (actor)
• Roy Byford (actor)
• Derrick De Marney (actor)
• Derrick De Marney (actor)
• Terence de Marney (actor)
• Terence de Marney (actor)
• Terence de Marney (actor)
• Bertram Dench (actor)
• Leo Genn (actor)
• Leo Genn (actor)
• Ivan Berlyn (actor)

Genres

• Drama

Jonson, Ben Filmography

• The Devil Is an Ass
  2009, role: writer
• Volpone
  2003, role: writer
• Il volpone
  1988, role: writer
• Volpone eli Kettu
  1977, role: writer
• Volpone
  1974, role: writer
• L'alchimiste
  1974, role: writer
• De Alchemist
  1971, role: writer
• Volpone
  1970, role: writer
• The Honey Pot
  1967, role: writer
• Volpone oder Der Fuchs
  1966, role: writer
• Volpone
  1964, role: writer
• Der Alchimist
  1959, role: writer
• Volpone
  1959, role: writer
• Volpone
  1958, role: writer
• Don Simón de Lira
  1946, role: writer
• The Desperadoes
  1943, role: writer
• Volpone
  1941, role: writer
• Tiburón
  1933, role: writer

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