Warwickshire campaigners hit back at Roland Emmerich's revisionist film that claims Shakespeare didn't write his plays
With its portrayal of William Shakespeare as a drunken buffoon who could hardly read, let alone write some of the finest poetry in the English language, Roland Emmerich's Anonymous was unlikely to be popular with the Stratford set. Now protestors in the Bard's home county are striking back against the drama, which debuts at the BFI London film festival tonight, by temporarily removing the playwright's name from road and pub signs across Warwickshire today.
The campaign by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, a charity which promotes study of the county's most famous son, is designed to highlight a world without England's greatest playwright. The Shakespeare pub in Welford, where the Bard is said to have enjoyed his last drink, becomes as anonymous as the subject of Emmerich's film, which suggests that the Earl of Oxford,...
With its portrayal of William Shakespeare as a drunken buffoon who could hardly read, let alone write some of the finest poetry in the English language, Roland Emmerich's Anonymous was unlikely to be popular with the Stratford set. Now protestors in the Bard's home county are striking back against the drama, which debuts at the BFI London film festival tonight, by temporarily removing the playwright's name from road and pub signs across Warwickshire today.
The campaign by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, a charity which promotes study of the county's most famous son, is designed to highlight a world without England's greatest playwright. The Shakespeare pub in Welford, where the Bard is said to have enjoyed his last drink, becomes as anonymous as the subject of Emmerich's film, which suggests that the Earl of Oxford,...
- 10/25/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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