Overview

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

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Cast

Kenneth Branagh

William Shakespeare

Judi Dench

Anne Shakespeare

Ian McKellen

Earl of Southampton

Kathryn Wilder

Judith Shakespeare

Lydia Wilson

Susanna Hall

Hadley Fraser

John Hall

Jack Colgrave Hirst

Tom Quiney

John Dagleish

Rafe Smith

Sean Foley

John Lane

Gerard Horan

Ben Jonson

Jimmy Yuill

Edward Woolmer

Alex Macqueen

Sir Thomas Lucy