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

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