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Anonymous: Watch 'real' Shakespeare hand over Romeo & Juliet
In upcoming historical blockbuster Anonymous, the plays we know as those of William Shakespeare are in fact written by an Elizabethan aristocrat. Our new clip shows how, according to the film, the famous texts came to the stage.
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Anonymous, the new big-budget historical movie from 2012 director Roland Emmerich, contends that the writer we all know as 'Shakespeare' was in fact an aristocrat called Edward De Vere. This new clip illustrates nicely how, in the world of the film, De Vere (Rhys Ifans) anonymously channels his work through Shakespeare, an actor, via Ben Johnson (Sebastian Armesto).
No doubt, there will be those with strong opinions on Shakespeare's texts that will take offence at the long-debated contention that Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare. But still, surely we have to give Emmerich's movie the benefit of the doubt and allow the harmless theory the movie puts forward. Anonymous will be judged, not on it's contentious subject matter but how convincingly its story is told.
Anonymous is released on 28 October.
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