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Alex Hassell as Spencer James Garnon as John Heminge Christian Sengewald as Cecil's Spy Servant Laura Lo Zito as Selling Maid Alfred Hartung as Stage Player: Shakespeare Company Claudius von Stolzmann as Stage Player: Shakespeare Company David Thewlis as William Cecil Trystan Gravelle as Christopher Marlowe John Keogh as Philip Henslowe Robert Emms as Thomas Dekker James Clyde as King James I Axel Sichrovsky as Essex General Mike Maas as Pole's Commander Jamie Campbell Bower as Young Earl of Oxford Paolo De Vita as Francesco Tony Way as Thomas Nashe Mark Rylance as Condell Lloyd Hutchinson as Richard Burbage Henry Lloyd-Hughes as Bear Baiter Patrick Heyn as Oxford's Doctor Jonas Hämmerle as Child Oberon Richard Durden as Archbishop Trystan Pütter as Bottom Rhys Ifans as Edward de Vere Sebastian Armesto as Ben Jonson Julian Bleach as Captain Richard Pole Derek Jacobi as Prologue Ned Dennehy as Interrogator Sam Reid as Earl of Essex André Kaczmarczyk as Titania Detlef Bothe as John De Vere Nino Sandow as Stage Manager (New York) Joely Richardson as Princess Elizabeth Tudor Edward Hogg as Robert Cecil Gode Benedix as Groundling Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth I Jasper Britton as Pope Katrin Pollitt as Lady-in-Waiting Patrick Diemling as Oxford's Servant Oliver Rickenbacher as Stage Player: Shakespeare Company Xavier Samuel as Earl of Southampton Nic Romm as Usher Rafe Spall as William Shakespeare Helen Baxendale as Anne De Vere Shaun Lawton as Footman Vicky Krieps as Bessie Vavasour Paula Schramm as Bridget De Vere

Christoph Fisser Co-Producer Volker Engel Executive Producer Roland Emmerich Director, Producer Kirstin Winkler Co-Producer Larry Franco Producer Anna Foerster Director of Photography Stefan Speth Art Direction Sandra Balej Compositing Artist Henning Molfenter Co-Producer Carl Woebcken Co-Producer Lisy Christl Costume Design Marcus Loges Line Producer Harald Kloser Original Music Composer