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.
Kenneth Branagh | William Shakespeare |
Judi Dench | Anne Hathaway |
Ian McKellen | Henry Wriothesley |
Kathryn Wilder | Judith Shakespeare |
Jack Colgrave Hirst | Tom Quiney |
Matt Jessup | Frank |
Lydia Wilson | Susanna |
John Dagleish | Rafe Smith |
Alex MacQueen | Sir Thomas Lucy |
Sean Foley | John Lane |
Gerard Horan | Ben Jonson |
Hadley Fraser | John Hall |