Unable to agree on the man responsible for the plays commonly attributed to William Shakespeare, Miss Gray, who favors Francis Bacon, and Lieutenant Stanton, who accepts Shakespeare as the author, break off their engagement. Stanton then arranges to be transferred to the Mexican border, and while fighting there is badly wounded.
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A parlour quarrel ignites a four-century fever-dream. Inside the flicker of a 1915 carbon-arc beam, Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player stages the most literate of duels: two betrothed minds cleaved by the authorship question long before it became cocktail chatter. The film’s very title—swinging between reverence a...
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" A parlour quarrel ignites a four-century fever-dream. Inside the flicker of a 1915 carbon-arc beam, Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player stages the most literate of duels: two betrothed minds cleaved by the authorship question long before it became cocktail chatter. The film’s very title—swinging between reverence and condescension—announces its dialectic heartbeat. We begin in a lace-curtained drawing room where Miss Gray’s quivering finger traces Bacon’s Advancement of Learning while Lieute..."
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