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As royal troops set fire to the Globe Theatre, Elizabethan-era playwright Ben Jonson is tortured by Robert Cecil, who demands to know if Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, is the true author of the writings attributed to William Shakespeare . Flashbacks reveal Oxford's passionate affair with Queen Elizabeth I and how -- in his younger days -- Oxford charmed her with plays like ``A Midsummer Night's Dream.''

Cast :

• Rhys Ifans
• Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford

• Vanessa Redgrave
• Queen Elizabeth I

• Joely Richardson
• Young Queen Elizabeth I

• David Thewlis
• William Cecil

• Xavier Samuel
• Earl of Southampton

• Sebastian Armesto
• Ben Jonson

• Rafe Spall
• William Shakespeare

• Edward Hogg
• Robert Cecil

• Sebastian Reid
• Earl of Essex

• Jamie Campbell Bower
• Young Earl of Oxford

• Derek Jacobi
• Prologue

• Trystan Gravelle
• Christopher Marlowe

• Helen Baxendale
• Anne De Vere

• Mark Rylance
• Condell

• Paolo De Vita
• Francesco

• Robert Emms
• Thomas Dekker

• Tony Way
• Thomas Nashe

• Julian Bleach
• Capt. Richard Pole

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