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

Matching books:

Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman

The Poetaster

Every Man in His Humour

Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems

Every Man out of His Humour

Every Man in His Humor

The Alchemist

Volpone; Or, the Fox

Sejanus: His Fall

Cynthia's Revels

Famous quotes by Ben Jonson:

"Art hath an enemy called Ignorance."

"She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks."

"A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house"

"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."

"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."

"Follow a shadow, it still flies you,"

"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine"

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

"Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, / Now the sun is laid to sleep, / Seated in thy silver chair, / State in wonted manner keep: / Hesperus entreats thy light, / Goddess, excellently bright."

"Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death"

"They that know no evil will suspect none."

"Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need."

"Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."

"Weigh the meaning and look not at the words."

"He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity."

"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."

"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine."

"'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end."

"Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times."

"This is the very womb and bed of enormity."