Subscribe ow.ly | Facebook ow.ly | Twitter ow.ly Release Date: 28 October 2011 Genre: Drama Cast: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis Directors: Roland Emmerich Writer: John Orloff Studio: Sony Pictures Plot: A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare– Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford– set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her.