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Anonymous (2011)
★ 6.4 · 782 ratings on TMDB
Was Shakespeare a Fraud?
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
DirectorRoland Emmerich
The emergence reading
Anonymous keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E9authorshipShakespeare never wrote the canon; Edward de Vere authored all plays attributed to Shakespeare (history · universal)
Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
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