Director Roland Emmerich exchanges exploding cities for quills in a drama about Shakespeare. Here’s Ryan’s review of Anonymous…
Best known for his apocalyptic disaster and adventure movies, director Roland Emmerich has replaced explosions for dramatic fireworks in his 16th century passion project, Anonymous.
As the success of the The Da Vinci Code and subsequent film adaptation proved, everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. And Anonymous relates what is surely the ultimate conspiracy in literature: that the astonishing output of Shakespeare was, in fact, written by someone else.
This isn’t, of course, a new notion: since his rediscovery by the literari of the 18th and 19th century, various writers have called the attribution of Shakespeare’s works into question. Mark Twain was among the numerous high-profile figures who’ve asked the same thing: is it possible that Shakespeare, a man of relatively lowly origins, really wrote 38 enduring plays,...
Best known for his apocalyptic disaster and adventure movies, director Roland Emmerich has replaced explosions for dramatic fireworks in his 16th century passion project, Anonymous.
As the success of the The Da Vinci Code and subsequent film adaptation proved, everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. And Anonymous relates what is surely the ultimate conspiracy in literature: that the astonishing output of Shakespeare was, in fact, written by someone else.
This isn’t, of course, a new notion: since his rediscovery by the literari of the 18th and 19th century, various writers have called the attribution of Shakespeare’s works into question. Mark Twain was among the numerous high-profile figures who’ve asked the same thing: is it possible that Shakespeare, a man of relatively lowly origins, really wrote 38 enduring plays,...
- 10/21/2011
- Den of Geek
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