Years ago, when I read that William Shakespeare, having retired from his career as a literary genius, went home to Stratford on Avon to speculate in real estate, I said, NO WAY. No way that an artist of that caliber would choose to spend his final years in that fashion - once an artist, always an artist. Then I learned about Edward de Vere, and I realized that he was an actual man, not the fantasy man we have been told about for hundreds of years, who could have learned, loved, fought, struggled, and put his soul on the pages of the world's greatest plays. The Edward de Vere, that actual man, is revealed in this very fine film.
