NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature-length documentary about Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, an A-list party boy on the continental circuit who spent a year and a half in Venice and traveling throughout Europe, learning about commedia dell'arte and collecting the experiences that would become Shakespeare plays. The film, which was shot in Venice, Verona, Mantua, Padua, and Brenta, visits actual sites visited by De Vere in 1575-76, including the settings for THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, OTHELLO, ROMEO & JULIET, and TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. The film, which stars renowned Shakespeare scholars, actors, and directors such as Sir Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance, Tina Packer, and Diane Paulus, contends that De Vere's bisexuality is the reason for the pseudonym Shake-speare.
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