The Saturday Interview - Shakespeare or Fakespeare?

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Was Shakespeare really England's greatest literary genius, or a drunken Elizabethan actor who simply struck lucky. The controversial new film Anonymous prefers the latter theory, the equally controversial director Roland Emmerich tells Steve Pratt

IN the words of the Bard of Avon himself, "Shakespeare or Fakespeare?" Did William Shakespeare write the plays commonly attributed to him or was it someone else? Or even a team of writers, much like they have on comedy series like Friends these days.

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The Saturday Interview - Shakespeare or Fakespeare?

Never mind if he wrote the plays, that "Shakespeare or Fakespeare" quote is a lie.

That was spoken by actor Rafe Spall, who plays Shakespeare in the new film Anonymous, which must have the word "controversial" attached to it as it dares to back those who claim Shakespeare didn't write the plays.

Writer John Orloff was Emmy-nominate...

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