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

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