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

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