Was Shakespeare a Fraud?
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
William Cecil
Condell
Young Earl of Oxford
Queen Elizabeth I
Oxford's Doctor
Prologue
Interrogator
Edward de Vere
Princess Elizabeth Tudor
William Shakespeare
Bessie Vavasour
Earl of Southampton
Anne De Vere
Earl of Essex
Thomas Dekker
Groundling
Robert Cecil
Archbishop
Thomas Nashe
Spencer