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Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (A)

Country: UK, Language: English, 84 mins

  • Director: John McKay
  • Writer: William Boyd
  • Producer: Angie Daniell; Ben Evans

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Aaah that never-ending great Shakespearian debate continues.

Oooh to be smitten by the beauty of youth.

It's literate, it's flimsy and it's lavish. And, entertaining - for what it's worth.

William Shakespeare was almost certainly homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual.

The sonnets provide no evidence on the matter.

Here endeth the debate.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A mystery in Shakespeare's sonnets is explored.

Cast & Characters

Rupert Graves as William Shakespeare;
Tom Sturridge as William Herbert;
Indira Varma as Lucie;
Zo* Wanamaker as Countess of Pembroke;
Anna Chancellor as Anne Hathaway;
Andrew Tiernan as Ben Jonson;
Nicky Henson as John Shakespeare;
Alan Williams as George Wilkins;
Nicholas Rowe as Richard Burbage;
John Voce as William Kemp;
Tom Hiddleston as John Hall;
Christopher Fairbank as Physician;
Ian Hughes as Thomas Thorpe;
Clem Tibber as Hamnet Shakespeare;
Tom Mison as Young Blood