NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in Venice and traveling in Europe, learning about commedia dell'arte and collecting the experiences that would become the Shakespeare plays. Shot in Venice, Verona, Mantua, Padua, and Brenta, the film ventures to actual sites De Vere visited in 1575-76, including the settings for THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, OTHELLO, ROMEO & JULIET, and TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. The film features renowned Shakespeare scholars, actors, and directors, including Sir Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance, Tina Packer, and Diane Paulus, and argues that De Vere's bisexuality is the reason for the pseudonym Shake-speare.
Cinematography
Venice locations that make you want to book a flight immediately
Acting
Derek Jacobi's deliciously conspiratorial narration
Direction
Cheryl Eagan-Donovan's cheeky academic detective work
Director
Cheryl Eagan-Donovan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Oxfordian theory' has been Hollywood catnip for decades — Orson Welles, Sigmund Freud, and even the Supreme Court have weighed in on the Shakespeare authorship debate.
Mark Rylance, who appears here, later starred in 'Anonymous' (2011), the Roland Emmerich blockbuster that turned this same theory into a sexy political thriller. The man COMMITS to the bit.
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