Anonymous

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

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