Roland Emmerich the 55 year old German film director renowned for his highly visual effect disaster and action films has controversially questioned Shakespeare’s authorship of his plays and sonnets in a soon to be released movie titled ‘Anonymous’. Emmerich depicts the nobleman 17th Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere as the true author of the plays, and Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon as merely an “inarticulate buffoon”. The argument being that the Earl of Oxford needed to remain anonymous due to the highly political nature of the plays in the context of the succession struggles during the late reign of Queen Elizabeth. Emmerich is often criticized for over relying of visual effects to counter flimsy narratives and factual inaccuracies, to which Emmerich counters that he is a filmmaker providing enjoyable fictional entertainment. Inspired by Tim Masters ow.ly/5DggI image source Franz Richter ow.ly/5Dgyn I was going for the controversy (July 27 2011)

Roland Emmerich the 55 year old German film director renowned for his highly visual effect disaster and action films has controversially questioned Shakespeare’s authorship of his plays and sonnets in a soon to be released movie titled ‘Anonymous’. Emmerich depicts the nobleman 17th Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere as the true author of the plays, and Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon as merely an “inarticulate buffoon”. The argument being that the Earl of Oxford needed to remain anonymous due to the highly political nature of the plays in the context of the succession struggles during the late reign of Queen Elizabeth. Emmerich is often criticized for over relying of visual effects to counter flimsy narratives and factual inaccuracies, to which Emmerich counters that he is a filmmaker providing enjoyable fictional entertainment.

 

Inspired by Tim Masters http://ow.ly/5DggI image source Franz Richter http://ow.ly/5Dgyn